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/æpə(ʊ)ˈdɪksɪs/ · noun
(rhetoric) Full demonstration or showing; absolute and incontrovertible proof..
... this [bold assertion of defiance] might taste of a desperate will, if he had not afterwards given an apodixis in the battle ...
Pythagoras, engaged in showing that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides, is committed to apodeixis; Mark Anthony, arguing that the demonstrable generosity and benevolence of Caesar towards the people of Rome showed him to be a most unlikely candidate for the character of an ambitious tyrant, resorts to pistis, argument on the grounds of probability.
Use apodixis when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Apodixis means (rhetoric) Full demonstration or showing; absolute and incontrovertible proof..
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... this [bold assertion of defiance] might taste of a desperate will, if he had not afterwards given an apodixis in the battle ...
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