Dictionary

a posteriori en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.

Meanings

1. Involving induction of theories from facts.
   • 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, R. S. Woolhouse, The empiricists, Oxford University Press:
2. Of a constructed language, Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.

Forms

Antonyms

a priori · deductive · a priori

Synonyms

inductive · empirical

Translations (17)

de im Nachhinein (involving deduction of theories from facts) · cmn 後驗 /后验 (involving deduction of theories from facts) · be апастэрыёрны (involving deduction of theories from facts) · de a posteriori (involving deduction of theories from facts) · ru апостерио́рный (involving deduction of theories from facts) · it a posteriori (involving deduction of theories from facts) · uk апостеріо́рний (involving deduction of theories from facts) · pl a posteriori (involving deduction of theories from facts) · fi aposteriorinen (involving deduction of theories from facts) · de aposteriorisch (involving deduction of theories from facts) · nb a posteriori (involving deduction of theories from facts) · es a posteriori (involving deduction of theories from facts) · el επαγωγικός (involving deduction of theories from facts) · pt a posteriori (involving deduction of theories from facts) · da a posteriori (involving deduction of theories from facts) · tl masiranin (involving deduction of theories from facts) · vi hậu nghiệm (involving deduction of theories from facts)

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a posteriori en · ADV

Pronunciation

• (US) audio

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.

Meanings

1. In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
   • 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:

Forms

Antonyms

a priori · deductively

Relateds

ex post

Synonyms

inductively[Appendix:Glossary

Translations (16)

ar البعديَة (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · es a posteriori (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · el εκ των υστέρων (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · uk апостеріо́рі (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · nb a posteriori (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · ru апостерио́ри (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · pl a posteriori (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · cmn 後驗 /后验 (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · pt a posteriori (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · de a posteriori (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · hi अनुभवजन्य (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · fr a posteriori (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · fi aposteriorisesti (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · de im Nachhinein (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · ru по по о́пыту (in a manner that deduces theories from facts) · be апастэрыёры (in a manner that deduces theories from facts)

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