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A posteriori
Definitions
- 1 Involving induction of theories from facts.
"What Locke calls "knowledge" they have called "a priori knowledge"; what he calls "opinion" or "belief" they have called "a posteriori" or "empirical knowledge"."
- 2 Of a constructed language, Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.
- 1 involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes wordnet
- 2 requiring evidence for validation or support wordnet
- 1 In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
"FALLACIES of the modern worldview have to do with the conception of the world as substance or machinery, mistaking abstractions for reality, confusing origins and truth, failing to attribute feeling to things that feel, recognising ethics as exclusively anthropocentric, thinking a posteriori, objectifying facts as separated from values, reducing the complex to the simple and dividing knowledge into distinct disciplines that produce experts who are often wrong."
- 1 derived from observed facts wordnet
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.
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