a posteriori

See also: aposteriori

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”). Used in philosophy after its introduction as a term of art by Kant.

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

• a priori

Related terms

• a fortiori

Translations

involving deduction of theories from facts

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後驗 (zh), 后验 (zh) (hòuyàn)

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

• Italian: a posteriori
• Portuguese: a posteriori (pt)
• Russian: апостерио́рный (ru) (aposteriórnyj)
• Tagalog: masiranin

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: البعديَة‎‎ (alʾbādiya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 後驗 (zh), 后验 (zh) (hòuyàn)

• Finnish: aposteriorisesti
• French: a posteriori (fr)

• German: a posteriori (de), im Nachhinein (de)
• Greek: εκ των υστέρων (el) (ek ton ystéron)
• Hindi: अनुभवजन्य (anubhavjanya)
• Portuguese: a posteriori (pt)
• Russian: апостерио́ри (ru) (aposterióri), по (po) по о́пыту (po ópytu)

See also

• ex post

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Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʔaː pɔstɛrɪʲɔːrɪ/, /ˈʔapɔstɛrɪʲɔːrɪ/, /ʔaː pɔstɛrɪʲɔːriː/

Adjective

a posteriori (invariable)

1. a posteriori

Adverb

a posteriori

1. a posteriori

Synonyms

• dodatečně, zpětně, ex post

Antonyms

• a priori

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German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)

Adjective

a posteriori

1. a posteriori

Declension

Declension of a posteriori

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter	all genders
predicative		er ist a posteriori	sie ist a posteriori	es ist a posteriori	sie sind a posteriori
strong declension (without article)	nominative	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori
	genitive	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori
	dative	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori
	accusative	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori	a posteriori
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der a posteriori	die a posteriori	das a posteriori	die a posteriori
	genitive	des a posteriori	der a posteriori	des a posteriori	der a posteriori
	dative	dem a posteriori	der a posteriori	dem a posteriori	den a posteriori
	accusative	den a posteriori	die a posteriori	das a posteriori	die a posteriori
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein a posteriori	eine a posteriori	ein a posteriori	(keine) a posteriori
	genitive	eines a posteriori	einer a posteriori	eines a posteriori	(keiner) a posteriori
	dative	einem a posteriori	einer a posteriori	einem a posteriori	(keinen) a posteriori
	accusative	einen a posteriori	eine a posteriori	ein a posteriori	(keine) 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

Adjective

a posteriori (invariable)

1. a posteriori

Adverb

a posteriori

1. a posteriori

Antonyms

• a priori

Anagrams

• espiratorio

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aː pos.te.riˈoː.riː/, [aː pɔs.tɛ.rɪˈoː.riː]

Prepositional phrase

ā posteriōrī

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

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Spanish

Adverb

a posteriori

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