a posteriori

英語

詞源

古典借詞，源自拉丁語 ā posteriōrī。康德將其作為藝術術語引入後用於哲學。

形容詞

a posteriori (比較級 more a posteriori，最高級 most a posteriori)

1. (邏輯學) 歸納的
   • 1988, Woolhouse, R. S., 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".

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2. (語言學，人工語言) 在現有語言的基礎上發展的

近義詞

• empirical

反義詞

• a priori

相關詞彙

• a fortiori

副詞

a posteriori (比較級 more a posteriori，最高級 most a posteriori)

1. (邏輯學) 歸納地
   • 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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參見

• ex post