demonstration

Roget-categorie 478

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
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#478. Demonstration

zelfstandig naamwoord

demonstration, proof, rigorous proof — conclusiveness etc. adj. — apodeixis^†, apodixis^†, probation, comprobation^†.
logic of facts etc. (evidence) 467 — experimentum crucis etc. (test) 463 [Lat.] — argument etc. 476 — rigorous establishment, absolute establishment.
conviction, cogency, (persuasion) 484.

werkwoord

demonstrate, prove, establish — make good — show, evince, manifest etc. (be evidence of) 467 — confirm, corroborate, substantiate, verify etc. 467, settle the question, reduce to demonstration, set the question at rest.
make out, make out a case — prove one's point, have the best of the argument — draw a conclusion etc. (judge) 480.
follow, follow of course, follow as a matter of course, follow necessarily — stand to reason — hold good, hold water.
convince, persuade (belief) 484.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

demonstrating etc. v., demonstrative, demonstrable — probative, unanswerable, conclusive — apodictic^†, apodeictic^†, apodeictical^† — irresistible, irrefutable, irrefragable — necessary.
categorical, decisive, crucial.
demonstrated etc. v. — proven — unconfuted^†, unanswered, unrefuted^† — evident etc. 474.
deducible, consequential, consectary^†, inferential, following.
[demonstrated to one's satisfaction] convincing, cogent, persuasive (believable) 484.

bijwoord

of course, in consequence, consequently, as a matter of course — necessarily, of necessity.

uitdrukking

probatum est [Lat.] — there is nothing more to be said — quod est demonstrandum [Lat.], Q.
E.D. — it must follow — exitus acta probat [Lat.].

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