a priori vs apodictic

a priori

adj
  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

apodictic

adj
  • Incontrovertible; demonstrably true or certain. 

  • Absolute and without explanation, as in a command from God like "Thou shalt not kill!" 

  • Being a style of argument in which a person presents their reasoning as categorically true, even if it is not necessarily so. 

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