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Definition of A priori

1. Adverb. Derived by logic, without observed facts.

2. Adjective. Involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact. "An a priori judgment"

3. Adjective. Based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment.

Definition of A priori

1. Adjective. (legal) Known ahead of time. ¹

2. Adjective. (logic) Based on hypothesis rather than experiment. ¹

3. Adjective. Self-evident, intuitively obvious ¹

4. Adjective. Presumed without analysis ¹

5. Adjective. (context: linguistics of a constructed language) Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.Donald J. Harlow, [ How to Build a Language] ¹

6. Adverb. (logic) In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of A priori

1. 1. Characterising 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. 3. Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. "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 preexisted in order to make experience possible." (Coleridge) Origin: L. A (ab) + prior former. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of A Priori

a million a million times a miss is as good as a mile a new broom sweeps clean a nod is as good as a wink a non domino a notch above a number of a penny saved is a penny earned a penny saved is a penny gained

a people a piacere a picture is worth a thousand words a picture paints a thousand words a posteriori a priori a quick drop and a sudden stop a riddle wrapped up in an enigma a rising tide lifts all boats a rolling stone gathers no moss

a scholar and a gentleman a small matter a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down a sprat to catch a mackerel a stitch in time saves nine a stopped clock is right twice a day a super lot a thing or two a thousand

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