Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • . A priori.
  • Having something of an a priori character: as, aprioristic reasoning or tendencies.

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  • adjective A priori.

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Examples

  • No aprioristic armchair theorizing but extremely high quality empirical work addressing the issues Hayek was concerned with.

    Joe Salerno on The Austrian Movement - The Austrian Economists 2007

  • Still, economics is a quantitative science - possibly even an aprioristic one that allows me to construct an apodictically certain architechtonic intellectual edifice that says nothing about th real world unlike pete leesons excellent economic history papers.

    10 Austrian Vices and How to Avoid Them - The Austrian Economists 2007

  • A recent subtle anti-aprioristic position is Maddy's (2002).

    Logical Truth Gómez-Torrente, Mario 2006

  • This equation, which later came to be known as Weber's Law, [19] was crucial to the development of psychology because it apparently demonstrated that where Herbart had failed in his aprioristic construction of mathematical regularities of mind, experimentation could succeed.

    Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt Kim, Alan 2006

  • January 01, 2006 at 12:23 PM 1. There's a problem with the way *both* the Austrian and Keynesian traditions are read and, sometimes, understood by their partisans in light of the postwar planning debates -- people get set in opposing aprioristic positions about the state.

    Best Wishes for 2006 - The Austrian Economists 2005

  • Hopkins's whole letter manifests a desire to take what Freud thought he was doing (being inductive à la John Stuart Mill, correlating hypotheses with therapeutic outcomes, etc.) as sufficient evidence of his actual procedures, which were aprioristic and peremptory in the extreme.

    The Unknown Freud: An Exchange Blum, Harold P. 1994

  • In its approach, which may seem hard and inflexible, and which some think of as aprioristic, the Holy See is moved by its sense of duty as "Mater et Magistra", Mother and Teacher.

    The Papacy and the Challenge of the Modern World 1984

  • Modern scholars, and some politicians, have added complications by applying aprioristic conceptions —

    HUMANISM IN ITALY PETER HERDE 1968

  • Laplace himself and his followers did not hesitate to apply the rules derived by means of his aprioristic definition to problems like the above and to many others where the definition failed.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas HILDA GEIRINGER 1968

  • Stoicism had first been brought over by Greek teachers as a possible guide, but the Roman, now trained by his extraordinary career in world politics to think in terms of experience, could have but little patience with a metaphysical system that constantly took refuge in a faith in aprioristic logic which had already been successfully challenged by two centuries of skeptics.

    Vergil Frank, Tenney, 1876-1939 1922

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