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What does apodictic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain.
  2. A style of argument, in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so.
  3. (theology) Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!"
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The simple apodictic form of these laws, enunciated without indication of a penalty, may derive from the admonitions of parents to their children.
Not all of these nine statements are totally independent, and the list makes no claim for apodictic completeness or ultimate correctness.
He sought a new and apodictic foundation of human knowledge based on the liberation of man from the ancient and medieval tradition of the West.
Are apodictic and ideology-driven minds protecting fanciful interstices of truth not saturated by enveloping change?
The Church's answer cannot continue to be a ceaseless restating of apodictic principles that set an ideal of perfection, which appears to be a wall impossible to climb to people of good will.
On page after page, acerbic observations vie for attention with apodictic verdicts.

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