a priori
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
First attested in 1710, from Latin, literally from the former, from priori (“former”)
[edit] Adjective
a priori (comparative more a priori, superlative most a priori)
- (law) Known ahead of time.
- (logic) Based on hypothesis rather than experiment.
- In his opening argument, the student mentioned nothing beyond his a priori knowledge.
- Self-evident, intuitively obvious
- Presumed without analysis
- (linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.[1]
[edit] Antonyms
- (linguistics): a posteriori
[edit] Translations
(logic) based on hypothesis rather than experiment.
[edit] Adverb
a priori (comparative more a priori, superlative most a priori)
- (logic) Derived by logic.
[edit] Translations
derived by logic
[edit] Related terms
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Donald J. Harlow, How to Build a Language
[edit] German
[edit] Adjective
a priori (not comparable)
[edit] Adverb
a priori
[edit] External links
a priori on the German Wikipedia.de.Wikipedia
[edit] Italian
[edit] Adjective
a priori inv.
[edit] Adverb
a priori
