Apriorism

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles. countable, uncountable

    "The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development."

  2. 2
    belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general. wordnet

Etymology

From a priori + -ism, after French apriorisme.

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