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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 183 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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APODICTIC (Gr. aroSeucTLK6r, capable of demonstration)

APODICTIC (Gr. aroSeucTLK6r, capable of demonstration) , a logical See also:

TERM

term, applied to judgments which are necessarily true, as of mathematical conclusions. The term in Aristotelian See also:

LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic is opposed to See also:

DIALECTIC, or DIALECTICS

dialectic, as scientific See also:

PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof to probable reasoning. See also:

KANT, IMMANUEL (1724-1804)

Kant contrasts apodictical with problematic and assertorical judgments.

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