a priori

IPA: ʌpriɔri

adjective

  • (logic) Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
  • Presumed without analysis.
  • (linguistics, conlanging) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.

adverb

  • (logic) In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.

apriori

IPA: ʌpriˈɔri

adverb

  • Alternative form of a priori [(logic) In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.]

Examples of "a-priori" in Sentences

  • Why is it a-priori “strongly liberal” to say that a voluntary desegregation plan was sensible?
  • “Why is it a-priori “strongly liberal” to say that a voluntary desegregation plan was sensible?”
  • Just stay out of schools unless your a-priori convictions can give us something emperically varifiable that makes novel predictions.
  • All of these things are topics of research, which certainly suggests that measuring impact on specific a-priori outcomes is a non-trivial process.
  • And in general consumers are able to consult experts to whatever degree they think necessary, so still no a-priori reason to think that the regulator is more likely to get it right.
  • To a-priori call the industrialization of the Moon a technical and programmatic failure does not spring from an understanding of the technical and programmatic issues involved but is a negative faith statement.
  • Immanuel Kant's transcendental deduction (1780!), ... that a-priori cognitive faculties determine the form of experience, and so the conditions of science, anticipated the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM with regard to the inability of science to provide an understanding of the underlying reality,

Examples of "apriori" in Sentences

  • Why is it necessary to posit an apriori assumption?
  • His decisions, because he decided them, were apriori right.
  • How is it possible for Falk to have this kind of apriori knowledge?
  • Is it because of the science, or does it have something to do with their apriori beliefs?
  • Therefore, there is apriori a case to focus our explanations (not blame) for the crisis on institutions. jimbo Says:
  • Shermer, for example, assumes apriori that peoples belief in God is something subjective which only takes place in their head.
  • What the episode points to is how easily sex/gender variance is deployed as a slur, as a charge to answer, but one which in the sheer act of asking establishes a kind of apriori guilt.
  • Approach (1): using knowledge of external plugin, In the user main application define a custom class with two properties. this kind of apriori knowledge about plugin during coding time.
  • Or to put it differently, I've no apriori objection to letting in low skilled mexican farm labor to pick lettuce, but not until the day we can't find any doctors, nurses, engineers, etc to fill the slot.

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