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Found 4 hits - Term: a priori, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
regulative \reg"ulative\ r?g"?l?t?v, a.
   1. tending to regulate; regulating. --whewell.
      1913 webster

   2. metaph. necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental
      to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles;
      as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori;
      the regulative faculty. --sir w. hamilton.
      1913 webster

   note: these terms are borrowed from kant, and suggest the
         thought, allowed by kant, that possibly these
         principles are only true for the human mind, the
         operations and belief of which they regulate.
         1913 webster
see also:
a priori 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
a priori \a` prio"ri\ l. a ab + prior former.
   1. logic characterizing that kind of reasoning which
      deduces consequences from definitions formed, or
      principles assumed, or which infers effects from causes
      previously known; deductive or deductively. the reverse of
      a posteriori.
      1913 webster

   3. philos. applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
      presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make
      experience rational or possible.
      1913 webster

            a priori, that is, form these necessities of the
            mind or forms of thinking, which, though first
            revealed to us by experience, must yet have
            pre"existed in order to make experience possible.
                                                  --coleridge.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
a priori
     adj 1: involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a
            necessary effect; not supported by fact; "an a priori
            judgment" ant: a posteriori
     2: based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment
     adv : derived by logic, without observed facts ant: a posteriori
see also:
a posteriori 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
28 moby thesaurus words for "a priori":
   a fortiori, a posteriori, analytic, back, backward, categorical,
   conditional, deducible, deductive, derivable, dialectic,
   discursive, dogmatic, early, enthymematic, epagogic, ex post facto,
   hypothetical, inductive, inferential, into the past, maieutic,
   reasoned, retroactive, retrospective, soritical, syllogistic,
   synthetic





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a priori
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A priori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
...cogito ergo sum, to be a priori, because he thought that one needn't refer to past.....Aristotle used the term in a manner slightly different from that used by contemporary.....When Aristotle wrote of "a priori" knowledge, he meant to say knowledge of the causes of..
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A PRIORI
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Friedrich A. Hayek
...Kant's conception of synthetic a priori propositions thus sought the truth of such.....Like Hume too, Hayek had a strong sense that history was a discovery process when it came.....a priori propositions. Nevertheless, Hayek's Kantian understanding of Hume and his use of..
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A priori - Textos jurídicos
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