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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)

1. (logic, philosophy) Involving induction of theories from facts.

   Synonyms: empirical, inductive ( synonymous outside of philosophic arcanity)

   Antonyms: a priori; deductive

   • 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".

2. (linguistics, conlanging) Of a constructed language, Developed on a basis of languages which already exist. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:)

   Antonym: a priori

副詞

a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)

1. (logic) In a manner that deduces theories from facts.

   Synonym: inductively (broadly synonymous outside of philosophic arcanity)

   Antonyms: a priori, deductively

   • 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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発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈaː pɔs.tɛ.riˈoː.riː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈaː pos.te.riˈɔː.ri]

副詞

ā posteriōrī (not comparable)

1. (Medieval Latin) In a manner involving reasoning from effect to cause.
2. (New Latin) In a manner involving induction from experience; a posteriori.

   Antonym: ā priōrī

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