
[Medieval Latin ā priōrī : Latin ā, from + Latin priōrī, ablative of prior, former.]
a priori a' pri·o'ri adv.| a posteriori, Australian English, Asian, Asiatic | |
| a, an, a.m, abacus |
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[Latin, From the cause to the ef- fect.]
This phrase refers to a type of reasoning that examines given general principles to discover what particular facts or real-life observations can be derived from them. Another name for this method is deductive reasoning.
Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.
— Bertrand Russell
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