"apodictism" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1976, Z. Bauman, Socialism, page 50:",
          "text": "It is my conviction that the evident stiffness and apodictism of the definitions cited was already predetermined.",
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          "ref": "1979, Le Théâtre en Pologne, XXI:vii-xii, page 22:",
          "text": "His sincerity, bordering on naïvete, may explain his inability to approach people…and even a certain apodictism.",
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          "text": "Dogmatic apodictism is essentially characteristic of faith.",
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          "text": "When it comes to writers like Prlichev, there can and should be room in both the Greek and Bulgarian, and Macedonian literary history. Naturally, not in the same way and not with the equal apodictism in determining their national attribution.",
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          "text": "In spite of the apodeictism of these statements, Foucault never articulates a fully coherent position on sexual repression.",
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