English[]
Etymology[]
Borrowed from Latin
Adjective[]
a posteriori
- (logic) Involving deduction of theories from facts.
Quotations[]
- 1988, What Locke calls "knowledge" they have called "a priori knowledge"; what he calls "opinion" or "belief" they have called "a posteriori" or "empirical knowledge". — The empiricists, Woolhouse, R. S., Oxford University Press.
Synonyms[]
- (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirical
Translations[]
involving deduction of theories from facts
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Adverb[]
a posteriori
- (logic) In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
Quotations[]
- 1991, 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. — New Scientist, IPC Magazines Ltd.
Translations[]
in a manner that deduces theories from facts
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See also[]
German[]
Etymology[]
From Latin a posteriori.
Adjective[]
a posteriori
Synonyms[]
- (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirisch
- (involving a time frame): im Nachhinein
Antonyms[]
a priori, ex ante
Adverb[]
a posteriori
Italian[]
Adjective[]
a posteriori inv.
Adverb[]
a posteriori
Antonyms[]
Anagrams[]
- aeiiooprrst,
- espiratorio
Latin[]
Preposition[]
a posteriori
- From the following, from those things that follow, from those things that are later.
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