Meaning of apodeictic | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Affording proof; demonstrative.
   not-comparable
2. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
   not-comparable
3. Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
   not-comparable

Examples

“1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition, 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.”

“Aristotle does, indeed, distinguish between (1) Logic, or Analytic, as the theory or method of arriving at true or apodeictic conclusions; and (2) Dialectic as the method of arriving at conclusions that are accepted or pass current[ly] as true,...”

“Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.”

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