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Definition of A priori
1. Adverb. Derived by logic, without observed facts.
2. Adjective. Involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact. "An a priori judgment"
3. Adjective. Based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment.
Definition of A priori
1. Adjective. (legal) Known ahead of time. ¹
2. Adjective. (logic) Based on hypothesis rather than experiment. ¹
3. Adjective. Self-evident, intuitively obvious ¹
4. Adjective. Presumed without analysis ¹
5. Adjective. (context: linguistics of a constructed language) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.Donald J. Harlow, [ How to Build a Language] ¹
6. Adverb. (logic) In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of A priori
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"Thus, if a man undermined his house, we say, "he might know a priori that it
would have fallen"; ... But still, a priori, he could not know even this much. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"With regard to these, Kant's first remark is that their necessity ami universality
must be a priori. That nothing which is universal and necessary can come ..."
3. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1903)
"That is, the evidence of their synthetic nature rested on the ground that the
synthesis was not a priori. Hence his conception must apply to the ..."
4. A History of Philosophy, from Thales to the Present Time by Friedrich Ueberweg, Noah Porter (1876)
"(Esthetic, tho science of the a priori principles of sensibility, Kant seeks to
demonstrate the à priori character of space and time. ..."
5. Works of Thomas Hill Green by Thomas Hill Green, Richard Lewis Nettleship (1890)
"It is another question whether the a priori factor in our moral consciousness,
which can alone give any moral bearing to the experience of matters of fact ..."
6. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason: In Commemoration of the Centenary by Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Max Müller (1896)
"Besides their empirical use all these faculties have a transcendental use also,
referring to'the form only and possible a priori. With regard to the senses ..."
7. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"That feature an accident, and not an a priori discovery.—Enumeration of defects
in the Constitution.—The weakness and ignorance of its framers. ..."