A priori
Definition of A priori
A` pri`o´ri
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
preëxisted
in
order
to
make
experience
possible
.
- Coleridge.
Related Words
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posteriori
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A grain of allowance
A great gross
A greegree man
A hard case
A kind of
A labor of love
A man of mark
A marked man
A mensa et thoro
A month mind
A murrain on you
A note shaver
A pair of bellows
A per se
A piece of bric-a-brac
A piece of money
A pig in a poke
A play upon words
A posteriori
A power
-A priori-
A respecter of persons
A screw loose
A sheet in the wind
A ship's caliber
A ship's husband
A short cut
a snowball's chance in hell
A son
A speaking acquaintance
A stand of arms
A stick of eels
A straight face
A straight line
A tempo giusto
A true bill
A Visit from St. Nicholas
A wet blanket
A wheel within a wheel
A whited sepulcher
A wild goose chase
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