apodictic

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Just another oral presentation of apodictic obiter dicta on the solo stage!

From Time Magazine Archive

Advance in thinking, in the hegelian universe, has, in short, to proceed by the apodictic words must be rather than by those inferior hypothetic words may be, which are all that empiricists can use.

From A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy by James, William

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

From Varieties of Religious Experience, a Study in Human Nature by James, William

He is not interested in the merely schematic character of the thought processes, but in their function as mediators of apodictic truth.

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various

The revelation was apodictic, convincing; it made life a different thing; it made society almost plausible.

From Are You a Bromide? The Sulphitic Theory Expounded and Exemplified According to the Most Recent Researches into the Psychology of Boredom Including Many Well-Known Bromidioms Now in Use by Burgess, Gelett