| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (18701938). Rogets International Thesaurus. 1922. |
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| Class IV. Words Relating to the Intellectual Faculties | | Division (I) Formation of Ideas | | Section IV. Reasoning Processes |
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| 478. Demonstration. |
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| NOUN: | DEMONSTRATION, proof, irrefragability; conclusiveness &c. adj.; apodeixis or apodixis, probation, comprobation [obs.].
logic of facts (evidence) [See Evidence]; experimentum crucis [L.] (test) [See Experiment]; argument [See Reasoning]; rigorous -, absolute- establishment.
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| VERB: | DEMONSTRATE, prove, establish, make good; show, evince (be evidence of) [See Evidence]; verify [See Evidence]; settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest.
make out, - a case; prove ones point, have the best of the argument; draw a conclusion (judge) [See Judgment].
FOLLOW, - of course; stand to reason; hold good, hold water [colloq.].
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| ADJECTIVE: | DEMONSTRATING &c. v., demonstrative, demonstrable; probative, unanswerable, conclusive, convincing; apodeictic or apodictic, apodeictical or apodictical; irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable, undeniable.
CATEGORICAL, decisive, crucial.
DEMONSTRATED &c. v.; proven; unconfuted, unanswered, unrefuted; evident [See Certainty]. DEDUCIBLE, consequential, consectary [obs.], inferential, following.
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| ADVERB: | OF COURSE, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course.
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| QUOTATIONS: | - Probatum est.
- There is nothing more to be said, Q.E.D., it must follow.
- Exitus acta probat.
- For now the field is not far off Where we must give the world a proof Of deeds, not words.Butler
- A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.Shaw
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