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Definition of Apagogic
1. a. Proving indirectly, by showing the absurdity, or impossibility of the contrary.
Definition of Apagogic
1. Adjective. Proving indirectly, by showing the impossibility, or absurdity of the contrary. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apagogic
1. apagoge [adj] - See also: apagoge
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apagogic
Literary usage of Apagogic
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"The apagogic mode of proof is the true source of those illusions which have always
had so strong an attraction for the admirers of dogmatical philosophy. ..."
2. Kant's Critical Philosophy for English Readers by Immanuel Kant (1889)
"However, this apagogic method is only admissible in sciences where it is impossible
to mistake a merely subjective representation for objective truth. ..."
3. Kant's Introduction to Logic and His Essay on the Mistaken Subtilty of the by Immanuel Kant (1885)
"The proofs on which all certainty, mediate or immediate, depends, are either
direct or indirect, that is apagogic. When I prove a truth from the reasons of ..."
4. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"The apagogic mode of proof is the true source of those illusions which have always
had so strong an attraction for the admirers of dogmatical philosophy. ..."
5. The Principles of Logic by Francis Herbert Bradley (1883)
"It might be treated as the explicit perception of a new relation, got by abstraction
from an implicit whole ; but I should prefer to take it as apagogic. ..."
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