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A posteriori

adjective

Involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes.

Requiring evidence for validation or support.

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Etymology of 'Posteriori'

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"A posteriori" Quotes from Famous Books

... need to be reminded that the process of acquiring knowledge is here confused with the contemplation of absolute knowledge. In all science a priori and a posteriori truths mingle in various proportions. The a priori part is that which is derived from the most universal experience of men, or is universally accepted by them; the a posteriori is that which grows up around the more general principles and becomes imperceptibly one with them. But Plato erroneously ...

— The Republic • Plato

... people who objected to it; the idea was only too seductive in its perfection; it had the charm of art. Unity and Uniformity were the whole motive of philosophy, and if Darwin, like a true Englishman, preferred to back into it — to reach God a posteriori — rather than start from it, like Spinoza, the difference of method taught only the moral that the best way of reaching unity was to unite. Any road was good that arrived. Life depended on it. One had been, from the first, dragged hither and thither like a French ...

— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams

Words linked to "A posteriori" : empiric, synthetical, synthetic, inductive, a priori, empirical