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apodeictics

apodeictics is the plural of apodeictic.

Meaning of apodeictic

Adjective

apodeictic (not comparable)

  1. Affording proof; demonstrative.
  2. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
  3. Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
    • Thus, moreover, the principles of geometry- for example, that "in a triangle, two sides together are greater than the third," are never deduced from general conceptions of line and triangle, but from intuition, and this a priori, with apodeictic certainty.1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition

Questions about apodeictics

What is apodeictics the plural of?
Apodeictics is the plural of apodeictic.

Words near apodeictics in the dictionary

  1. apodals
  2. apode
  3. apodeictic
  4. apodeictical
  5. apodeictically
  6. apodeictics
  7. apodeipnon
  8. apodeixis
  9. apodema
  10. apodemal
  11. apodemas

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