a posteriori

adj.

1. Derived by or designating the process of reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes; inductive; empirical.
2. 1. Justified by appeal to experience.
   2. Knowable from experience.

[Medieval Latin : Latin a, from + Latin posteriorī, ablative of posterior, later.]

aposteriori a' pos·te'ri·o'ri adv.

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[Latin, From the effect to the cause.]

A posteriori describes a method of reasoning from given, express observations or experiments to reach and formulate general principles from them. This is also called inductive reasoning.

From what follows; from effect to cause.

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principals or from effects to causes
  Antonym: a priori (meaning #1)

Meaning #2: requiring evidence for validation or support

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The adverb a posteriori has one meaning:

Meaning #1: derived form observed facts
  Antonym: a priori (meaning #1)

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Dansk (Danish)
idioms:

• a posteriori    det at bevise grunden ud fra effekten

Français (French)
idioms:

• a posteriori    à posteriori

Deutsch (German)
idioms:

• a posteriori    a posteriori, im nachhinein

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - (λατ.) ύστερα

idioms:

• a posteriori    εκ των υστέρων, επαγωγικά

Italiano (Italian)
idioms:

• a posteriori    a posteriori

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - posteriori

idioms:

• a posteriori    a posteriori

Русский (Russian)
idioms:

• a posteriori    последующий, эмпирический

Español (Spanish)
idioms:

• a posteriori    después de examinar el asunto

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - aposteriorisk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
后面的, 尾部的, 背部的

idioms:

• a posteriori    归纳的, 后天的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
後面的, 尾部的, 背部的

idioms:

• a posteriori    歸納的, 後天的

한국어 (Korean)
idioms:

• a posteriori    뒤[다음]
• a posteriori    뒤[다음]

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 後天的な, 帰納的な

idioms:

• a posteriori    後天的に, 帰納的に

עברית (Hebrew)
a - ‮בדיעבד, לאחר מעשה‬

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