Apodicticity
Template:Short description "Apodictic", also spelled "apodeictic" (Template:Langx, "capable of demonstration"), is an adjectival expression from Aristotelian logic that refers to propositions that are demonstrably, necessarily or self-evidently true.[1] Apodicticity or apodixis is the corresponding abstract noun, referring to logical certainty.
Apodictic propositions contrast with assertoric propositions, which merely assert that something is (or is not) true, and with problematic propositions, which assert only the possibility of something's being true. Apodictic judgments are clearly provable or logically certain. For instance, "Three plus one equals four" is apodictic, because it is true by definition. "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 philosophical reasoning. Kant contrasted "apodictic" with "problematic" and "assertoric" in the Critique of Pure Reason (A70/B95 - A76/B101).[2]
Apodictic a priorism
Hans Reichenbach, one of the founders of logical positivism, offered a modified version of Immanuel Kant's a priorism by distinguishing between apodictic a priorism and constitutive a priorism.[3]
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References
- ^ Dictionary definitions of apodictic, from dictionary.com, including material from the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Random House, Inc. (2006), The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition, 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company, and WordNet 3.0, Princeton University 2006.
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Mormann, Thomas (2012). "Toward a Theory of the Pragmatic a Priori: From Carnap to Lewis and Beyond". In Creath, Richard (ed.). Rudolf Carnap and the Legacy of Logical Empiricism. Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook. Vol. 16 (2012. ed.). Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 113-132. doi:10.1007/978-94-007-3929-1_7. ISBN 978-94-007-3928-4. S2CID 170999667.
- Antony Flew. A Dictionary of Philosophy - Revised Second Edition. St. Martin's Press, NY, 1979
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