Found 2 items, similar to A priori.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: a priori a priori adj 1: involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect; not supported by fact; “an a priori judgment” [ant: a posteriori] 2: based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment adv : derived by logic, without observed facts [ant: a posteriori]
English → English (gcide) Definition: A priori A priori \A` pri*o"ri\ [L. a (ab) + prior former.] 1. (Logic) Characterizing 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. [1913 Webster] 3. (Philos.) Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience rational or possible. [1913 Webster] 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 pre["e]xisted in order to make experience possible. --Coleridge. [1913 Webster]