Apodixis

Quick meaning: Apodixis is a noun meaning (rhetoric) Full demonstration or showing; absolute and incontrovertible proof.

Meaning

(rhetoric) Full demonstration or showing; absolute and incontrovertible proof.

Example Sentences

... 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.

Word Forms

• apodeixis

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apodeixis, anapodoton, apodioxis, anacoenosis, addubitation, appositio.

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