adjective
- Expressing or of the nature of necessary truth; demonstrable by logical proof rather than by observation or experience.
- Expressing absolute certainty; leaving no room for doubt.
Usage: formal; philosophical
Usage: formal
Examples
- The mathematician presented an apodeictic proof that could not be refuted.
- His apodeictic statement left no room for debate or alternative interpretation.
- In logic, apodeictic truths are those that must be true by necessity, not by chance.
- The philosopher distinguished between apodeictic knowledge and merely probable opinion.
- She spoke with apodeictic confidence about the outcome of the experiment.
- Apodeictic reasoning relies on deductive logic rather than empirical observation.