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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
a priori
adv 1: derived by logic, without observed facts [ant: a
posteriori]
adj 1: involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to
a necessary effect; not supported by fact; "an a priori
judgment" [ant: a posteriori]
2: based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Regulative \Reg"u*la*tive\ (r?g"?*l?*t?v), a.
1. Tending to regulate; regulating. --Whewell.
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2. (Metaph.) Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental
to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles;
as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori;
the regulative faculty. --Sir W. Hamilton.
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Note: These terms are borrowed from Kant, and suggest the
thought, allowed by Kant, that possibly these
principles are only true for the human mind, the
operations and belief of which they regulate.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make
experience rational or possible.
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A priori, that is, from 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.
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Thesaurus Results for a priori:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
a fortiori, a posteriori, analytic, back, backward, categorical, conditional, deducible, deductive, derivable, dialectic, discursive, dogmatic, early, enthymematic, epagogic, ex post facto, hypothetical, inductive, inferential, into the past, maieutic, reasoned, retroactive, retrospective, soritical, syllogistic, synthetic |
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