apodictic

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Now all commandment necessarily relates to the will; whereas all scientific demonstration is independent of the will, and is apodictic or demonstrative only as far as it is compulsory on the mind, 'volentem, nolentem'.

From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

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

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

Strange is it not that, oft her Dolour cloaking In hurried Puffs with Nonchalance provoking, No woman reads that apodictic Ode "How to be Happy Even Though You're Smoking?"

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace