[languages] An ``a priori`` language is any constructed language whose vocabulary is not based on existing languages, unlike a posteriori constructed languages. Examples of a priori languages include aUI, Ro, Solresol, Mirad, Klingon, Ithkuil, Na`vi, and High Valyrian. By contrast, a posteriori languages are ones whose vocabulary is based o...
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a way of gaining knowledge without appealing to any particular experience(s). Kant used this method to establish transcendental and logical truths*. (Cf. a posteriori.)
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The terms a priori and a posteriori are descriptive of knowledge or reasoning, reflecting whether or not it is the result of our experience of the real world. Alleged knowledge attained solely through reasoning from arbitrary principles is a priori (Latin: from earlier things); that gained empirical...
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It is always used in the phrase 'a priori' often shown in italics because it is not English, but comes from Latin. In the economics context 'a priori' means 'it is assumed in advance'. It means: 'we think it is logical that . . . ' or 'we had to assume something, and we assumed this, without evidence.' The writer is also implying 'I do not cite evi...
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a way of gaining knowledge without appealing to any particular experience(s). This method is used to establish transcendental and logical truths. (Cf. a posteriori.)
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where knowledge is possible independently of, or prior to, any experience, and requires only the use of reason (non-empirical).
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A priori is Latin for from cause to effect
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In rhetoric, logic, and philosophy, an argument is said to be a priori if its truth can be known or
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(Kant) A term applied to all judgments and principles whose validity is independent of all impressions of sense. Whatever is pure a priori is unmixed with anything empirical. In Kant's doctrine, all the necessary conditions of experience (i.e., forms and categories) are a priori. Whatever is a priori must possess universal and necessary validity. ....
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(Latin `from what comes before`) in logic, an argument that is known to be true, or false, without reference to experience; the converse of a posteriori. Space, time, reality, and negation exist independently of experience and arguments from these are a priori. Immanuel Kant asserts that we do not derive these concepts from experience...
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A priori knowkedge is knowledge which can be established independently of experience or reasoning from experience. Examples of a priori truths:
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from cause to effect; from a general law to a particular instance; valid independently of observation.
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from a general law to a particular instance; valid independently of observation. Cf. a posteriori (def. 1). · existing in the mind prior to and independent of experience, as a faculty or character trait. Cf. a posteriori (def. 2). · not based on prior study or examination; nonanalytic: an a priori judgment.
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