different between apodictic vs assertoric

English

Alternative forms

• apodeictic

Etymology

From the Latin apod?cticus (“proving clearly”, “demonstrative”), from the Ancient Greek ???????????? (apodeiktikós, “affording proof”, “demonstrative”), from ??????????? (apodeíknumi, “I demonstrate”). In turn, from ???- (apo-, “separate, without””), and ????????? (deiktikós, “capable of proof”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ap???d?kt?k/, /ap???da?kt?k/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /apo??d?kt?k/

Adjective

apodictic (comparative more apodictic, superlative most apodictic)

1. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
   • 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Folio Society 2008, p. 284:

     No religion has ever yet owed its prevalence to ‘apodictic certainty’.

   • 1992, Alexander Jablokov, A Deeper Sea, Avon Books, p. 250:

     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."

2. 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.

3. (theology, Biblical studies) Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"

Antonyms

• problematic
• assertorical

Derived terms

Translations

Romanian

Etymology

From French apodictique, from Latin apodicticus.

Adjective

apodictic m or n (feminine singular apodictic?, masculine plural apodictici, feminine and neuter plural apodictice)

1. apodictic

Declension

English

Etymology

From Latin.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æs??t???k/

Adjective

assertoric

1. (logic) Stating that which is actual.

Coordinate terms

• imperative
• interrogative

Derived terms

• assertorically

Related terms

• assertion

Translations

See also

• problematic
• apodeictic

Anagrams

• ostraciser