a posteriori

adj

Etymology

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.

learned borrowing from ā posteriōrī — “involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”

Definitions

1
Involving induction of theories from facts.
- What Locke calls "knowledge" they have called "a priori knowledge"; what he calls "opinion" or "belief" they have called "a posteriori" or "empirical knowledge".
Of a constructed language, Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.
In a manner that deduces theories from facts.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for a posteriori. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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