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The most essential of these is "high crimes and misdemeanors." Though treason and bribery are also grounds for impeachment and removal, their meaning is more apodictic. Moreover, after some debate about whether it was necessary or appropriate to include an impeachment remedy at all, the framers concluded that the ballot box was an insufficient check.

Truth as connected with the virtues should go beyond the epistemic limits of apodictic certainty.

It is true that nothing can guarantee, in apodictic terms, that an object released from my hand will always fall on the floor, because there is a disturbing but unlikely chance: at some point, this body may behave in a different, unforeseen way.

This is not a matter of praxeology, of apodictic certainty.

This means that, following Brentano, some of our emotional reactions are similar to the apodictic judgment.

Thomas would hesitate to reckon this an apodictic proof of God's existence; but the Fourth Way, the argument from gradation, hints at the fact that our every experience of sublunar beauty is grounded in some intuition of the summum pulchrum: God, the sovereign Beauty beyond all beautiful creations.

From low-level narrative literary forms such as apodictic statements and speech acts to full-fledged stories, such as case stories and exempla, Simon-Shoshan surveys a wide range of literary forms on the narrativity continuum.

Developing or embracing empirical research is still frequently associated with adopting a positivistic epistemological stance towards knowledge (Crotty, 2003), as if data resulting from empirical research had to derive into apodictic, deterministic and universal conclusions.

Ever apodictic, Greenberg says that iconoclasm's 'motives were entirely religious' (false), while speaking of 'the echo of certain aesthetically felt objections to the figurative' (what about the Second Commandment?).

Here the apodictic concrete objects are punctuated by what is not sculpture, not durable, not completely intentional, but ephemeral and abstract.

The philosophical urge of the pre-supposition-less domain of understanding particularly in the context of modern thought is in itself rested upon the assumption that the realm of "apodictic evidence" is epistemologically possible.

However, if-as is the case here--an apodictic statement is made at the very beginning that renouncing growth would do very little to help the environment, then the authors must be asked why they have selected such a narrow bibliography to back up such a far-reaching statement.