apodictic

ADJECTIVE
  1. of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
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How To Use apodictic In A Sentence

  • The truths that conceptual analysis arrives at are thus apodictic, rather like the truths of geometry.
  • As music, I have come to believe that it is the most perfect music that exists, so much so that I encounter every new chant with apodictic certainty of eventually discovering its profundity. Demographics and Sacred Music
  • Suppose I could construct a flawless proof, based entirely on the apodictic truths of logic, that one may torture innocent people only on pain of contradiction. Fukuyama in NPQ
  • Are these so-called first principles apodictically true or merely current empirical wisdom? Mann's New Divergence "Theory": A Smoothing Artifact « Climate Audit
  • I can think of no reason for a physician to add Avandia to a diabetic patient's treatment program in light of recent events even though we may never know with apodictic certainty if there is an increased risk of heart attack or not. You can tell a big thing from a little thing but a litle thing from nothing at all is really hard
  • ˜Although, apart from divine revelation, there is no apodictic certainty about things that exist outside our mind, but only moral or probable and likely certainty, that is still sufficient to perform adequately and to control all the activities of human life, since nothing more is required for them apart from moral or probable truth or the certainty and likelihood of knowledge™ Henricus Regius
  • Solomon looked astonished — “Xantippe, the wife of Socrates,” said he, “is recorded a termagant and a scold, but with her acetosity his philosophy enabled him to bear; but it is apodictical to me, that whoever has the misfortune to marry you will, without amphibology, have more occasion for patience and philosophy than ever Socrates had.” Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments
  • Let this be a lesson to us, that in other countries you cannot get around the law. You have to contend that they are apodictic in implementing the law.
  • Given Bush's proclivity for hockey style nicknames, don't you guys think its apodictically certain he called Wolfowitz "Wolfie"? Archive 2007-05-01
  • We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non-reactive dualism, postmodernist grammatology and dicey dichotomies. Onion soup | smitten kitchen
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