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A priori
A priori A` pri*o"ri [L. a (ab) + prior former.]
1. (Logic) Characterizing that kind of reasoning which
deduces consequences from definitions formed, or
principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes
previously known; deductive or deductively. The reverse of
a posteriori.
3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make
experience rational or possible.
A priori, that is, form these necessities of the
mind or forms of thinking, which, though first
revealed to us by experience, must yet have
pre["e]xisted in order to make experience possible.
--Coleridge.
Meaning of A priori from wikipedia
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A priori ('from the earlier') and
a posteriori ('from the later') are
Latin phrases used in
philosophy to
distinguish types of knowledge, justification...
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a priori in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
A priori (Latin, 'from the earlier') is
a term used in
philosophy and epistemology.
A priori or apriori...
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priori in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Priori may
refer to:
Priori,
members of the
government of
Renaissance Florence and
other Italian cities...
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fictional speakers of the language.[original research?] An
a priori (from
Latin a priori, "from the former")
constructed language is one
whose features...
- equations, an
a priori estimate (also
called an
apriori estimate or
a priori bound) is an
estimate for the size of
a solution or its
derivatives of
a partial...
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example of an
a priori prior, due to
Jaynes (2003),
consider a situation in
which one
knows a ball has been
hidden under one of
three cups,
A, B, or C, but...
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calls "
a priori" knowledge,
while knowledge obtained through experience is
termed "
a posteriori".
According to Kant,
a proposition is
a priori if it is...
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fully accepts that
there is
knowledge a priori,
which is
either outright rejected by
empiricism or
accepted only in
a restricted way as
knowledge of relations...
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a priori–
a posteriori distinction together yield four
types of propositions:
analytic a priori synthetic a priori analytic a posteriori synthetic a posteriori...
- how much
a priori information on the
system is available.
A black-box
model is
a system of
which there is no
a priori information available.
A white-box...
