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RECENT POSTSa posteriori
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adjective
inductive reasoning; reasoning based on observable facts
1873Critiques and AddressesOn the other hand, these views are supported a posteriori by an induction from observation, which professes to show that whatever is done by a Government beyond these negative limits, is not only sure to be done badly, but to be done much worse than private enterprise would have done the same thing.1894The History of RomeNo accounts have been preserved of the mode in which the settlements of the Latins took place in the district which has since borne their name; and we are left to gather what we can almost exclusively from a posteriori inference regarding them.1897On Human Nature: Essays (Partly Posthumous) in Ethics and PoliticsDialectic, for the most part, can be constructed only a posteriori; that is to say, we may learn its rules by an experiential knowledge of the disturbance which pure thought suffers through the difference of individuality manifested in the intercourse between two rational beings, and also by acquaintance with the means which disputants adopt in order to make good against one another their own individual thought, and to show that it is pure and objective.1961The Dandelion GirlTheir animated discussion of the transcendental aesthetic did more than elicit a priori and a posteriori conclusions…Labels: Arthur Schopenhauer, Robert F. Young, Theodor Mommsen, Thomas Henry Huxley
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