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A priori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A priori may refer to: • A priori (languages), a type of constructed language • A priori (statistics), a knowledge of the actual population • A priori and a posteriori, used to distinguish two types ...
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A priori and a posteriori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The terms " a priori " and " a posteriori " are used in philosophy (epistemology) to distinguish two types of knowledge, justifications or arguments. A priori knowledge or justification ...
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In each case, the a priori is taken to be independent of sensory experience, which the a posteriori presupposes. An a priori argument, then, is taken to reason deductively from abstract general premises, while an a posteriori argument relies upon specific information derived from sense perception.
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The a priori/a posteriori distinction is epistemological and should not be confused with the metaphysical distinction between the necessary and the contingent or the semantical or logical distinction between the analytic and the synthetic.
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Short definition of a priori and a posteriori. ... A propositon is known a priori if it is known independently of empirical evidence. A proposition known on the basis of empirical evidence is known a posteriori.
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A Priori is a philosophical term that is used in several different ways. The term is suppose to mean knowledge that is gained through deduction, and not through empirical evidence. For instance, if I have two apples now, and I plan to add three apples, I will have five apples.
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