The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.
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Apriorism
Synonyms for "apriorism" (23 found)
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Catalan
1 entries- apriorisme noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
French
1 entries- apriorisme noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
Galician
1 entries- apriorismo noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
German
1 entries- Apriorismus noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
Greek
1 entries- απριορισμός noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
Italian
1 entries- apriorismo noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
Polish
1 entries- aprioryzm noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
Portuguese
1 entries- apriorismo noun (the idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically)
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What was needed for modern science to take shape was a renunciation of their bookish a priorism, with its Aristotelian notion that all things can be deduced by logical, abstract argument from (ultimately arbitrary) first principles.
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