adjective, expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty.
"Apomictic certainty," the professor asserted, "can only be achieved in logic."
There's something remarkable about a word that, when periodically dusted off, proves to have retained its freshness over 350 years--and that's the case with "apodictic." It's a handy word that can describe a conclusive concept, a conclusive person, or even that conclusive person's conclusive remarks. A well-known close relative of "apodictic" is "paradigm" ("an outstandingly clear or typical example"); both words are built on the Greek deiknynai, meaning "to show." More distant relatives (from the Latin dicere, a relative of deiknynai that means "to say") include "diction," "dictate," "edict," and "predict."
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