apriori

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See also: a priori

English

Adverb

apriori (not comparable)

  1. Alternative form of a priori
    • 2001, Mark Sainsbury, chapter 1, in Logical Forms — An Introduction to Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, Blackwell Publishing, →ISBN, page 13:
      Another form of this kind of scepticism is as follows. Logic is apriori, but inductive "logic" is not, so it is not really logic.
    • 2008 January 30, Lisa Warenski, “Naturalism, fallibilism, and the a priori”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 142, number 3, →DOI:
      In other words, one can be fallibilist about both claims that are said to be apriori warranted and the a priori warrants for the claims.

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French

Noun

apriori

  1. Alternative form of a priori