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Synonyms for A posteriori:
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- act of god ,
- analytic ,
- celluloid ,
- coherent ,
- consistent ,
- data-based ,
- hard-nosed ,
- hardheaded ,
- inducive ,
- inevitable accident ,
- lawfully ,
- legally ,
- legitimate ,
- lucid ,
- man-made ,
- misconduct ,
- observational ,
- ordered ,
- pragmatic ,
- semisynthetic ,
- synthetic substance ,
- unavoidable casualty ,
- virtual ,
- wrongdoing ,
- wrongful conduct ,
- empiric ,
- inductive ,
- synthetic ,
- synthetical .
What are the hypernyms for A posteriori?
Other hypernyms:
argument, conclusion, evidence, justification, rationale.
What are the opposite words for a posteriori?
A posteriori is a philosophical term that refers to knowledge acquired through experience or observation. As an antonym for a posteriori, the term "a priori" is used to describe knowledge that is derived from theoretical or deductive reasoning, rather than empirical evidence. A priori knowledge is based on intuition, logic or reason, and does not require observation or experience to be acquired. In the context of epistemology, a priori is often contrasted with a posteriori as two distinct forms of knowledge. While a posteriori knowledge is based on empirical evidence and experience, a priori knowledge is a priori knowledge is based on reason and logic.
What are the antonyms for A posteriori?
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a. / adv.
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Famous quotes with A posteriori
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It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
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Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.
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I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
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Unity and Uniformity were the whole motive of philosophy, and if Darwin, like a true Englishman, preferred to back into it — to reach God a posteriori — rather than start from it, like Spinoza, the difference of method taught only the moral that the best way of reaching unity was to unite. Any road was good that arrived.
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For the truth is that our doctrines are usually only the justification a posteriori of our conduct, or else they are our way of trying to explain that conduct to ourselves.
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Related words: a posteriori analysis, a posteriori reasoning, a posteriori argumentation, a posteriori knowledge acquisition, a posteriori knowledge acquisition theory, a posteriori knowledge acquisition methods, a posteriori knowledge acquisition techniques, a posteriori knowledge acquisition process
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