Meaning of "apodeictical" in the English dictionary

PRONUNCIATION OF APODEICTICAL

apodeictical  [ˌæpəˈdaɪktɪkəl]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF APODEICTICAL

Apodeictical is an adjective.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES APODEICTICAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Apodicticity

"Apodictic" or "apodeictic" is an adjectival expression from Aristotelean logic that refers to propositions that are demonstrable, that are necessarily or self-evidently the case or that, conversely, are impossible. Apodicticity or apodixis is the corresponding abstract noun, referring to logical certainty. Apodictic propositions contrast with assertoric propositions, which merely assert that something is the case, and with problematic propositions, which assert only the possibility of something being true. Franz Brentano writes in The True and the Evident, "judgments may be either assertoric or apodictic. Assertoric judgments are judgments which are possibly true but are unproven." Apodictic judgments are judgments which are clearly provable and logically certain. For instance, "Two plus two equals four" is apodictic. "Chicago is larger than Omaha" is assertoric. "A corporation could be wealthier than a country" is problematic. In Aristotelian logic, "apodictic" is opposed to "dialectic," as scientific proof is opposed to probable reasoning. Kant contrasts "apodictic" with "problematic" and "assertoric" in the Critique of Pure Reason, on page A70/B95.

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «APODEICTICAL»

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Critique of pure reason, tr. by J.M.D. Meiklejohn

In the assertorical, we regard the proposition as real (true) ; in the apodeictical, we look on it as necessary.* Thus the two judgments (antecedens et consequent) , the relation of which constitutes a hypothetical judgment, likewise those (the ...

Immanuel Kant, 1855

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: JSP : a Quarterly ...

APODEICTICAL. Omitting the consideration of a posteriori knowledge for the present, let us investigate the a priori in order to learn something of the constitution of the intelligence which knows — always a proper subject for philosophy. Since ...

Critique of Pure Reason

In the assertorical, we regard the proposition as real (true) ; in the apodeictical, we look on it as necessary.* Thus the two judgments (antecedens et consequent) , the relation of which constitutes a hypothetical judgment, likewise those (the ...

Immanuel Kant, 1855

The Journal of Speculative Philosophy

The universal and necessary is sometimes called the apodeictical. The conception of the apodeictical lies at the basis of all true philosophical thinking. He who does not distinguish between apodeictic and contingent judgments must pause ...

William Torrey Harris, 1867

Critique of Pure Reason

In the assertorical, we regard the proposition as real (true); in the apodeictical, we look on it as necessary.* Thus the two judgments (antecedens et consequens), the relation of which constitutes a hypothetical judgment, likewise those (the ...

I. Kant

The Critique of Pure Reason:

The apodeictical propositioncogitates the assertoricalas determined by these very laws of theunderstanding, consequentlyas affirminga priori, andin this manner it expresseslogical necessity. Now because allis here gradually incorporated ...

Immanuel Kant, 2014

Immanuel Kant's Collection [ 8 Books ]:

The apodeictical proposition cogitatesthe assertorical asdetermined by these very laws ofthe understanding, consequently as affirming apriori, and in this mannerit expresses logical necessity. Now because allis here graduallyincorporated ...

Immanuel Kant, 2011

Kant's Critiques

The apodeictical proposition cogitates the assertoricalas determined by these verylaws of the understanding, consequently as affirminga priori, and in thismanneritexpresses logical necessity. Now becauseallishere gradually incorporated with ...

Immanuel Kant, 2013

Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics

Yet it carries with it thoroughly apodeictical certainty, i. e., absolute necessity, which therefore rests upon no empirical grounds. Consequently it is a pure product of reason, and moreover is thoroughly synthetical. [Here the question arises:] ...

Immanuel Kant, 2011

Measure of man

The resultant disjunctive relationship plus apodeictical thinking emerge as the dynamics producing creative reason. But apodeictical disjunction per se contains no moral quality. A scientist, using apodeictical disjunction, may use his reason ...

Byrle Osborn, 1945