apodictic
- adjective
- /ˌæpəˈdɪktɪk/
- Formal
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apodíctico
- The teacher's explanation was so clear that it made the apodictic principles of mathematics easy to understand.
Examples
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Only from this fanatical intolerance could its apodictic faith take form; this intolerance is, in fact, its absolute presupposition.
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With the recent reemergence of history, many of the identical descriptions, with all their formal-historical baggage, are again being repeated, having tacitly, if nonreflectively, been granted apodictic status; prominent among these is the structure/ornament model.
Academic text (1998) -
Tyler argues that one of the constant themes in the dominant culture has been the "search for apodictic and universal method."
Academic text (1990) -
Likewise, the present spread of free markets and longing for liberal constitutionalism cannot represent apodictic evidence in its favor.
Academic text (1994) -
From a postmodern perspective, cultures may have common elements, but rather than being articulated in apodictic terms, they remain vague and unelaborated.
Academic text (2006) -
For example, the present tribalism and religious fundamentalism we are witnessing do not amount to apodictic counter-evidence to the end of history thesis.
Academic text (1994) -
The advent of the new method, which aimed not at apodictic certainty but at increasing degrees of probability, led inevitably to a polarization of natural science and metaphysics.
Academic text (2010) -
With regard to Wittgenstein's understanding of subjectivity in the Tractatus, we find a similar thought when he famously manifests in the apodictic manner of his early work that the subject as "limit of the world" does not belong to the world as such.
Academic text (2017) -
Many scientific laws, such as the law of gravity, are considered apodictic truths in physics.
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His belief in the apodictic nature of the statement left no room for doubt among his peers.
Synonyms
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1.0
Sure to happen or be true
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4.2
So clear that people cannot doubt it
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4.8
Clear and obvious without needing proof
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6.7
Completely clear and leaving no doubt
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5.7
You cannot doubt it because it is clearly true
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7.8
Impossible to deny or prove wrong
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8.2
Clearly true and impossible to doubt
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4.1
Clearly true so no one can doubt it
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8.3
Clearly true and accepted without proof
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6.7
True only because of the meaning of its words, not because of facts
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7.5
People cannot doubt it because it is clearly true
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8.7
Completely certain and clearly true
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4.7
Certain and impossible to doubt
Certainly true and impossible to doubt
True from the meaning of its words, not from facts or experience
Compounds
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
apodictic = apodict + ic
The adjective is a learned borrowing from Greek with a non‑English base; knowing English suffix '-ic' does not let a typical B1 learner derive the meaning from the base form.
Etymology
Apodictic comes from a Greek root apodeik- meaning 'to show' or 'to prove', the same idea behind the English word demonstrate. So something apodictic is 'clearly proven' or logically certain and cannot be doubted.