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)
- (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".
- 1988, Woolhouse, R. S., The empiricists, Oxford University Press.
- (linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.[1]
Synonyms
- (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirical
Antonyms
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Translations
involving deduction of theories from facts
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Adverb
a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)
- (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.
- 1991, New Scientist
Translations
in a manner that deduces theories from facts
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See also
References
- ^ Donald J. Harlow, How to Build a Language
Czech
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)
Pronunciation
Adjective
a posteriori (invariable)
Adverb
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German
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)
Pronunciation
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Adjective
Declension
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Synonyms
- (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirisch
- (involving a time frame): im Nachhinein
Antonyms
Adverb
Italian
Adjective
a posteriori (invariable)
Adverb
Antonyms
Anagrams
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aː pos.te.riˈoː.riː/, [äː pɔs̠t̪ɛriˈoːriː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a pos.te.riˈo.ri/, [äː post̪eriˈɔːri]
Adverb
ā posteriōrī (not comparable)
- From the following, from those things that follow, from those things that are later.
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
- (logic) a posteriori, involving deduction of theories from facts.
- viten a posteriori
- a posteriori knowledge; knowledge based on experience
- viten a posteriori
Related terms
References
- posteriori “a posteriori” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “a posteriori” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
Spanish
Adverb
- at a later stage
- (logic, philosophy) a posteriori
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