About The Word A priori
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A priori
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What's The Definition Of A priori?
[adj] based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
[adv] derived by logic, without observed facts [adj] involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact; "an a priori judgment" Synonyms | Synonyms for A priori: theoretic | theoretical Related Terms | Find terms related to A priori: a fortiori | a posteriori | analytic | back | backward | categorical | conditional | deducible | deductive | derivable | dialectic | discursive | dogmatic | early | enthymematic | epagogic | ex post facto | hypothetical | inductive | inferential | into the past | maieutic | reasoned | retroactive | retrospective | soritical | syllogistic | synthetic See Also | analytic | analytical | deductive A priori In Webster's Dictionary \A` pri*o"ri\ [L. a (ab) + prior former.]
1. (Logic) Characterizing that kind of reasoning which
deduces consequences from definitions formed, or
principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes
previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of
a posteriori.
3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make
experience rational or possible.
A priori, that is, form these necessities of the
mind or forms of thinking, which, though first
revealed to us by experience, must yet have
pre["e]xisted in order to make experience possible.
--Coleridge.
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