a posteriori

See also: aposteriori

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”). Used in philosophy after its introduction as a term of art by Kant.

Adjective

a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)

  1. (logic) Involving deduction of theories from facts.
    • 1988, Woolhouse, R. S., The empiricists, Oxford University Press.
      What Locke calls "knowledge" they have called "a priori knowledge"; what he calls "opinion" or "belief" they have called "a posteriori" or "empirical knowledge".
  2. (linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.[1]

Synonyms
  • (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirical

Antonyms

Translations

Adverb

a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)

  1. (logic) In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
    • 1991, New Scientist
      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.

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See also

References
  1. Donald J. Harlow, How to Build a Language

Czech

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʔaː pɔstɛrɪʲɔːrɪ/, /ˈʔapɔstɛrɪʲɔːrɪ/, /ʔaː pɔstɛrɪʲɔːriː/

Adjective

a posteriori (invariable)

  1. a posteriori

Adverb

a posteriori

  1. a posteriori

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Antonyms

German

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)

Adjective

a posteriori

  1. a posteriori

Declension
Declension of a posteriori
number & gender singular plural
masculine feminine neuter all genders
predicative er ist a posteriori sie ist a posteriori es ist a posteriori sie sind a posteriori
strong declension
(without article)		 nominative a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori
genitive a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori
dative a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori
accusative a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori a posteriori
weak declension
(with definite article)		 nominative der a posteriori die a posteriori das a posteriori die a posteriori
genitive des a posteriori der a posteriori des a posteriori der a posteriori
dative dem a posteriori der a posteriori dem a posteriori den a posteriori
accusative den a posteriori die a posteriori das a posteriori die a posteriori
mixed declension
(with indefinite article)		 nominative ein a posteriori eine a posteriori ein a posteriori (keine) a posteriori
genitive eines a posteriori einer a posteriori eines a posteriori (keiner) a posteriori
dative einem a posteriori einer a posteriori einem a posteriori (keinen) a posteriori
accusative einen a posteriori eine a posteriori ein a posteriori (keine) a posteriori

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Antonyms

Adverb

a posteriori

  1. a posteriori

Italian

Adjective

a posteriori (invariable)

  1. a posteriori

Adverb

a posteriori

  1. a posteriori

Antonyms

Anagrams

Latin

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /aː pos.te.riˈoː.riː/, [aː pɔs.tɛ.rɪˈoː.riː]

Prepositional phrase

ā posteriōrī

  1. From the following, from those things that follow, from those things that are later.

Spanish

Adverb

a posteriori

  1. at a later stage
  2. (logic) a posteriori
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