apodictic
Collocations
3ADJ.
all, true
APODICTIC + NOUN
certainty, haven, t
ADV.
such
Definitions
adj
Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
No religion has ever yet owed its prevalence to ‘apodictic certainty’.
The orca spoke in the odd grammatical tense used either to describe dreams, or to make statements so true they were apodictic, such as "All things die" or "Before my conception I did not exist."
Being a style of argument in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so.
Don’t be so apodictic! You haven’t considered several facets of the question.
Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"
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adjective — of a proposition
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3No religion has ever yet owed its prevalence to ‘apodictic certainty’.
WiktionaryThe orca spoke in the odd grammatical tense used either to describe dreams, or to make statements so true they were apodictic, such as "All things die" or "Before my conception I did not exist."
WiktionaryDon’t be so apodictic! You haven’t considered several facets of the question.
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