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apodictic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective apodictic has 1 sense
- apodictic(s = adj.all) apodeictic - of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain; Array
CIDE DICTIONARY
apodictic, a. [L. apodicticus, Gr. , fr. to point out, to show by argument; from + to show.].
Self-evident; intuitively true; evident beyond contradiction. Brougham. Sir Wm. Hamilton. [1913 Webster]
apodictic, a.
Same as Apodeictic. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
apodictic, adj. (also apodeictic)
1 clearly established.
2 of clear demonstration.
1 clearly established.
2 of clear demonstration.
Etymology
L apodicticus f. Gk apodeiktikos (as APO-, deiknumi show)
ROGET THESAURUS
apodictic
Demonstration
N demonstration, proof, rigorous proof, conclusiveness, apodeixis, apodixis, probation, comprobation, logic of facts, experimentum crucis, argument, rigorous establishment, absolute establishment, conviction, cogency, (persuasion), demonstrating, demonstrative, demonstrable, probative, unanswerable, conclusive, apodictic, apodeictic, apodeictical, irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable, necessary, categorical, decisive, crucial, demonstrated, proven, unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted, evident, deducible, consequential, consectary, inferential, following, convincing, cogent, persuasive (believable), of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course, necessarily, of necessity, probatum est, there is nothing more to be said, quod est demonstrandum, Q, E, D, it must follow, exitus acta probat.
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