Meaning of A PRIORI
| Pronunciation: | | `ey prI'owree
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | theoretic, theoretical |
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| | Antonyms: | | a posteriori, a posteriori | | |
| | See Also: | | analytic, analytical, deductive | |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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