“An apodictic statement is incontrovertible.”
Apodictic
Definition (adjective): incontrovertible, irrefutable, demonstrably true, not false. “He spoke with apodictic certainty about a subject that he knew well”; “Faith in a higher power does not require apodictic evidence”; “The Professor apodictically rejected the student’s assertion”; “Waste not, want not” is an apodictic statement; “The Bible is full of apodictic laws; these are absolute, unconditional divine commands that apply universally and that are rendered as “thou shall nots”; “Heart surgeons have an apodictic knowledge of the cardiovascular system”; “Gravity cannot be questioned; its existence is apodictic.”
Pronunciation: a-puh-dik·tik
About the Word:
From the Greek “apodeiktikos,” meaning “to demonstrate.”