a posteriori
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.
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a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)
- (logic) Involving induction of theories from facts.
- 1988, R. S. Woolhouse, 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".
- (linguistics, of a constructed language) Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.[1]
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- (involving induction of theories from facts): empirical
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a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)
- (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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- ^ Donald J. Harlow, How to Build a Language
Czech edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)
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a posteriori
French edit
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Borrowed from Italian a posteriori.
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a posteriori (invariable)
- a posteriori
- Antonym: a priori
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a posteriori
- a posteriori, in the aftermath
- Antonym: a priori
German edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”)
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a posteriori (indeclinable)
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- (involving deduction of theories from facts): empirisch
- (involving a time frame): im Nachhinein
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a posteriori
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Unadapted borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows”).
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a posteriori (invariable)
- a posteriori
- Antonym: a priori
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a posteriori
- a posteriori
- Antonym: a priori
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “from the following, from those things that follow, from those things that are later”. Introduced as a technical phrase by Scholastic philosophers, notably Albert of Saxony (14th century).
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- (Classical) IPA(key): /aː pos.te.riˈoː.riː/, [äː pɔs̠t̪ɛriˈoːriː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a pos.te.riˈo.ri/, [äː post̪eriˈɔːri]
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ā posteriōrī (not comparable)
- (Medieval Latin) In a manner involving reasoning from effect to cause.
- (New Latin) In a manner involving induction from experience, a posteriori.
Descendants edit
- → English: a posteriori
- → Norwegian Bokmål: a posteriori
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Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows; from what [ must ] follow”), first part from Latin ā (“from, away from, out of”), alternative form of ab (“from, away from, out of, down from”) by apocope (not used before a vowel or h), from Proto-Italic *ab, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂epó (“off, away”). Last part from Latin posteriōrī, dative singular of posterior (“after, next”), comparative degree of posterus (“next, after”), from post (“behind, after”), from earlier poste, from Proto-Italic *posti, from Proto-Indo-European *pósti, from *pós (“afterwards; by, at”).
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- (logic, philosophy) a posteriori, involving deduction of theories from facts.
- 2009 August 4, Adresseavisen, page 32:
- at 2+2 er 4 som er a priori viten og at vi har sanseerfaring som er a posteriori viten er ikke et bevis for at Jesus ikke eksisterer
- that 2 + 2 is 4 which is a priori knowledge and that we have sensory experience which is a posteriori knowledge is not a proof that Jesus does not exist
- viten a posteriori
- a posteriori knowledge; knowledge based on experience
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- empirisk (“empirical”)
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- a priori (“a priori”)
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- a fortiori (“a fortiori”)
References edit
- posteriori “a posteriori” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “a_posteriori” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
- “a posteriori” in Store norske leksikon
Polish edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin ā posteriōrī.
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a posteriori (not comparable, no derived adverb)
- (literary, logic, philosophy) a posteriori
- Antonyms: a priori, aprioryczny, apriorystyczny
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a posteriori (not comparable)
- (literary, logic, philosophy) a posteriori
- Antonyms: a priori, apriorycznie
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Further reading edit
- a posteriori in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- a posteriori in Polish dictionaries at PWN
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a posteriori
- at a later stage
- (logic, philosophy) a posteriori
Further reading edit
- “a posteriori”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014