conclusiveness

  • 41certainty — I noun absence of doubt, absolute confidence, absoluteness, assurance, assuredness, authoritativeness, certification, certitude, certus, complete conviction, conclusiveness, confidentness, conviction, corroboration, definiteness, firmness,… …

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  • 42certitude — I noun absolute certainty, absoluteness, ascertained fact, assurance, assuredness, attestation, certainness, certainty, certainty of meaning, conclusiveness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, dead certainty, definiteness, freedom from error …

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  • 43Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …

    History of philosophy

  • 44Idealism (italian) and after — Italian idealism and after Gentile, Croce and others Giacomo Rinaldi INTRODUCTION The history of twentieth century Italian philosophy is strongly influenced both by the peculiar character of its evolution in the preceding century and by… …

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  • 45demonstration — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Act of proving Nouns demonstration, substantiation, proof, probation, verification, authentication; confirmation, corroboration, evidence; conclusiveness; test (see experiment); argument (see reasoning) …

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  • 46disprove — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. refute, confute, explode, defeat. See negation, confutation. Ant., prove, demonstrate. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. prove false, discredit, controvert, refute, confute, rebut, throw out, set aside, find …

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  • 47proof — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. evidence, substantiation, verification, confirmation; conclusiveness; corroboration, ratification; trial, test; sample, impression. See demonstration, experiment. adj. impenetrable, impervious;… …

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  • 48finality — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. decisiveness, conclusiveness, totality, completeness, intactness, entirety, wholeness, integrity, perfection, final character, terminality, definiteness, definitiveness, irrevocableness, finish …

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  • 49conclusive — 1610s, occurring at the end, from Fr. conclusif, from L.L. conclusivus, from conclus , pp. stem of concludere (see CONCLUDE (Cf. conclude)). Meaning definitive, decisive, convincing (putting an end to debate) is from 1640s. Related:… …

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  • 50authoritativeness — n. quality of being official or approved; conclusiveness …

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