a posteriori
IPA: ʌpɔstɪriɛri
adjective
- (logic) Involving induction of theories from facts.
- (linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.
adverb
- (logic) In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
Examples of "a-posteriori" in Sentences
- I strongly oppose pseudo-science and consider ID to match that label, a-posteriori.
- PvM: What is wrong in showing how Methodologial Naturalism leads to good science a-posteriori?
- Even if you were correct in your claims here, this does nothing to undermine my claims about why ID should be rejected as scientifically relevant a-posteriori.
- In fact, various of your positions require ID to be shown a-posteriori to be unscientific, others presume that the scientific method is somehow sacred and not tentative.
- When ID is rejected a-posteriori for appealing to the supernatural, the ‘requirement’ of MN is one of pragmatism and not one borne out of an a-priori requirement. i like latin
- Profits become a-posteriori indicators of business performance rather than as long-term goals; they are viewed as the means to keep companies going concerns and not as ends-in-themselves.
- Monton argues that Laudan rejects methodological naturalism as a demarcation criterion for science, ignoring that Laudan accepts methodological naturalism a-posteriori as a “good” science.
- Camp even accepts that the Explanatory Filter is a legitimate approach, even though the evidence strongly supports that it is inherently unreliable, leading one to reject the EF approach ‘a-posteriori’ as useless.
- In other words, science is not rejecting Intelligent Design a-priori but rather it observes that Intelligent Design is scientifically vacuous and thus correctly rejects Intelligent Design a-posteriori as ‘bad’ science.