ADVERB
- derived from observed facts
ADJECTIVE
- requiring evidence for validation or support
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involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes
a posteriori demonstration
How To Use a posteriori In A Sentence
- The method a posteriori is a method of direct experience. Philosophy of Economics
- a posteriori demonstration
- A posteriori parte magni altaris monstratur locus, vbi Moysi apparuit Dominus in rubo ardente, ipsum rubum adhuc seruans, quem dum monachi intrant, semper se discalceant gratia illias verbi, quo Deus iussit Moysi ibidem, The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- Steve Salerno, author of the book SHAM: How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, wrote in his review of The Secret on Amazon: One seldom encounters a better/worse example of the logical fallacy known as a posteriori reasoning. Boing Boing
- Hence, his knowledge of that consequent, which is that S is one meter long at t0, is also a posteriori, contrary to what Kripke claims. A Priori Justification and Knowledge
- Induction, a posteriori, would have brought phrenology to admit, as an innate and primitive principle of human action, a paradoxical something, which we may call perverseness, for want of a more characteristic term. The Imp of the Perverse
- This classification of propositions, founded only on the structural properties of ideas, is the logical counterpart of the Kantian distinction between a priori and a posteriori, which is relative to the origin of the ideas that occur in them and is defined in subjective terms. Bolzano's Logic
- The difference between the method a priori and the method a posteriori is that the method a priori is an indirect inductive method.
- A posteriori parte magni altaris monstratur locus, vbi Moysi apparuit Dominus in rubo ardente, ipsum rubum adhuc seruans, quem dum monachi intrant, semper se discalceant gratia illias verbi, quo Deus iussit Moysi ibidem, The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- In the one case, reason proceeds according to conceptions and can do nothing more than subject phenomena to these -- which can only be determined empirically, that is, a posteriori -- in conformity, however, with those conceptions as the rules of all empirical synthesis. The Critique of Pure Reason