apodeictic

== English == === Alternative forms === apodictic === Etymology === From Ancient Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˌapəˈdaɪk.tɪk/ === Adjective === apodeictic (not comparable) Affording proof; demonstrative. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain. (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident. 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. ==== Antonyms ==== anapodeictic ==== Derived terms ==== apodeictically ==== Related terms ==== apodeixis ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== assertoric