Apodeictic

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Apodeictic \Ap"o*deic"tic\, Apodictic \Ap`o*dic"tic\,
  Apodeictical \Ap`o*deic"tic*al\, Apodictical \Ap`o*dic"tic*al\,
     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] Apodeictically

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  apodeictic
       adj : of a proposition; necessarily true or logically certain
             [syn: {apodictic}]