Appearance
Use device theme  
Dark theme
Light theme

What does apodeictic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word apodeictic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Affording proof; demonstrative.
  2. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
  3. (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
Find more words!
Use * for blank tiles (max 2) Advanced Search Advanced Search
Use * for blank spaces Advanced Search
Advanced Word Finder
Similar Words
Examples
Part 1 searches the rhetorical background of Iago's and Othello's respective speech habits, the one characteristically ingenious and the other apodeictic.
Chomskyans typically take this point, conceding that the argument from the poverty of the stimulus is not apodeictic.
I shall term this the demonstrative or apodeictic employment of reason.
These principles cannot be derived from experience, for it would give neither strict universality, nor apodeictic certainty.
Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.
Since these ideas are not involved in the justification of apodeictic knowledge, the necessity to stress the atemporal and aspatial nature of ideas vanishes.

See Also

Nearby Definitions
10-letter Words Starting With
Find Definitions
go
Word Tools Finders & Helpers Apps More Synonyms
Copyright WordHippo © 2025