apodictic , also: apodeictic

Alethic modality might then concern what are considered to be apodictic statements.

Apodictic judgments are judgments which are clearly provable and logically certain.

Homosexuality is expressly forbidden in many religions, but typically in casuistic rather than apodictic laws.

Part of Gray's problem is a penchant for such apodictic utterances as 'communism and belief in the free market have become museum pieces'.

Christianity is the apodictic truth, in contrast to the dialectic, dianoia or rationalised knowledge which is the arrived at truth by way of philosophical speculation.

As with all forms of scientific knowledge, scientific theories are inductive in nature and do not make apodictic propositions; instead, they aim for predictive and explanatory force.

Kant contrasts "apodictic" with "problematic" and "assertoric" in the Critique of Pure Reason, on page A70/B95.

In his response titled "Apodictic Treatises", Palamas insisted that it was indeed demonstrable that the Holy Spirit proceeded from the Father but not from the Son.

Aristotle's distinction between apodictic science and other forms of non-demonstrative knowledge, rests on an epistemology and metaphysics wherein the appropriate first principles will become apparent to the trained dialectician:

The hermeneutic tradition develops a view of human understanding and cognition as centered on the decipherment of meanings (as opposed to, say, foundational theories of brute verification or an apodictic rationalism).

Apodictic propositions contrast with assertoric propositions, which merely assert that something is (or is not) the case, and with problematic propositions, which assert only the possibility of something being true.

Palamas stated that this is not a mechanized process because each person is unique, but that the apodictic way that one experiences the uncreated light, or God, is through contemplative prayer called hesychasm.

He posits that these Stammaim were the recipients of terse Tannaitic and Amoraic statements and that they endeavored to fill in the reasoning and argumentative background to such apodictic statements.

But the Commission also believes that the concept of science, which has been used by some speakers in this debate too, is somewhat apodictic, because traditional medical science, which researches, produces and evaluates non-homeopathic medicinal products, sets its own conditions.

But as these two tipplers joust over the "hermeneutics of suspicion," "the apodictic aphorism," "a major paradigm shift" and " 'hegemonic' forms of authority," you have to keep slapping the back of your neck to stay oriented.

The Apodictic laws (a type of law characterized by absolute or general commands or prohibitions, as in the Ten Commandments) on the other hand are more general and the Covenant Code contains some of these as well, for example in Exodus 21:17.