a posteriori

See also à posteriori

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin

Adjective

a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)

1. (logic) Involving deduction of theories from facts.
   • 1988, Woolhouse, R. S., The empiricists, Oxford University Press.

     What Locke calls "knowledge" they have called "a priori knowledge"; what he calls "opinion" or "belief" they have called "a posteriori" or "empirical knowledge".

2. (linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.

Synonyms

• (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirical

Antonyms

• (linguistics): a priori

Translations

involving deduction of theories from facts

• German: a posteriori (de), im Nachhinein (de)
• Greek: επαγωγικός (el) (epagogikós) m

• Italian: a posteriori
• Russian: апостериорный (ru) (apostɛriórnyj)

Adverb

a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)

1. (logic) In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
   • 1991, New Scientist

     FALLACIES of the modern worldview have to do with the conception of the world as substance or machinery, mistaking abstractions for reality, confusing origins and truth, failing to attribute feeling to things that feel, recognising ethics as exclusively anthropocentric, thinking a posteriori, objectifying facts as separated from values, reducing the complex to the simple and dividing knowledge into distinct disciplines that produce experts who are often wrong.

Translations

in a manner that deduces theories from facts

• Arabic: البعدية (ar) (al'baadia)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 后验 (cmn) (hòu yàn)

• German: a posteriori (de), im Nachhinein (de)

• Greek: εκ των υστέρων (el) (ek ton ystéron)
• Hindi: अनुभवजन्य (hi) (anubhavajan'ya)
• Russian: апостериори (ru) (apostɛrióri), по опыту (po ópytu

See also

• a fortiori
• a priori

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German

Etymology

From Latin a posteriori.

Adjective

a posteriori

1. a posteriori

Synonyms

• (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirisch
• (involving a time frame): im Nachhinein

Antonyms

• a priori, ex ante

Adverb

a posteriori

1. a posteriori

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Italian

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Adjective

a posteriori (invariable)

1. a posteriori

Adverb

a posteriori

1. a posteriori

Antonyms

• a priori

Anagrams

• espiratorio

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Latin

Prepositional phrase

ā posteriōrī

1. From the following, from those things that follow, from those things that are later.

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Spanish

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Adverb

a posteriori

1. at a later stage
2. (logic) a posteriori