different between impossible vs apodeictic

English

Alternative forms

• inpossible (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French impossible, from Latin impossibilis, from in- (“not”) + possibilis (“possible”), from possum (“to be able”) + suffix -ibilis (“-able”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?p?s.?.b?l/, /?m?p?s.?.b?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p?.s?bl/
• Hyphenation: im?pos?si?ble

Adjective

impossible (comparative more impossible, superlative most impossible)

1. Not possible; not able to be done or happen.
   • 1610-11?, Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, scene i:

     Antonio: What impossible matter will he make easy next?

     Sebastian: I think he will carry this island home in his pocket and give it his son for an apple.

     Antonio : And sowing the kernels of it in the sea bring forth more islands.

   • 1865, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

     Nothing is impossible, only impassible.

   • 13 March 1962, John F. Kennedy

     Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

2. (colloquial, of a person) Very difficult to deal with.

3. (mathematics, dated) imaginary

Synonyms

• unpossible (rare)

Antonyms

• (not able to be done or happen): possible, inevitable

Derived terms

• impossibility
• impossibly
• mission impossible

Translations

Noun

impossible (plural impossibles)

1. (obsolete) an impossibility
   • Late 14th century: “Madame,” quod he, “this were an impossible!” — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

Translations

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin impossibilis, equivalent to in- +? possible.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /im.pu?si.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /im.po?si.ble/

Adjective

impossible (masculine and feminine plural impossibles)

1. impossible

   Antonym: possible

Derived terms

• impossiblement

Related terms

• impossibilitat

Further reading

• “impossible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “impossible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “impossible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “impossible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From im- +? possible.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.p?.sibl/

Adjective

impossible (plural impossibles)

1. impossible

Derived terms

• à cœur vaillant rien d'impossible
• à l'impossible nul n'est tenu
• impossible n'est pas français
• impossiblement

Further reading

• “impossible” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Adjective

impossible m or f (plural impossibles)

1. impossible

English

Alternative forms

• apodictic

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????????? (apodeiktikós). Compare Latin apodicticus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ap??da?k.t?k/

Adjective

apodeictic (not comparable)

1. Affording proof; demonstrative.
2. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
3. (logic) Of the characteristic feature of a proposition that is necessary (or impossible): perfectly certain (or inconceivable) or incontrovertibly true (or false); self-evident.
   • 1855, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (translator), 1787, Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, 2nd Edition,

     Thus, moreover, the principles of geometry- for example, that "in a triangle, two sides together are greater than the third," are never deduced from general conceptions of line and triangle, but from intuition, and this a priori, with apodeictic certainty.

   • 1896, Thomas Bailey Saunders (translator), 1831, Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of Controversy

     Aristotle does, indeed, distinguish between (1) Logic, or Analytic, as the theory or method of arriving at true or apodeictic conclusions; and (2) Dialectic as the method of arriving at conclusions that are accepted or pass current[ly] as true,...

   • 2009, Jonathan Dancy, Ernest Sosa, Matthias Steup, A Companion to Epistemology,

     Descartes sought certainty in the existence of God grounded in apodeictic demonstrations.

Antonyms

• anapodeictic

Derived terms

• apodeictically

Related terms

• apodeixis

Translations

See also

• assertoric