| 单词 | a priori |
| 例句 | An ombudsman would scan the news stories, research whatever statistics are mentioned, try to see that they are at least internally consistent, and probe most carefully into a priori implausible claims. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z If an art is true, if an art is free of falsenesses, it is, a priori, beautiful.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z There are no a priori grounds for thinking that this is a good way to conduct intellectual life. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The atheist argues ‘a priori’; the philosopher argues ‘by the Event’, in other words from experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z This study is more impressive, even if less spectacular, than the earlier a priori probability argument. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z McGrath thinks that he's only pretending so – that he's in denial, effectively – but asserts this more than evidences it, apparently on the a priori basis of the horridness of war. CS Lewis: A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet by Alister McGrath – review 2013-05-08T09:00:04Z Abstraction taps bottom-up thinking, requiring little to no a priori knowledge. This is your brain on art: A neuroscientist’s lessons on why abstract art makes our brains hurt so good 2016-12-18T05:00:00Z Among the knee-jerk reactions Reynolds astutely ascribes to chill wave naysayers is the "invocation of nostalgia as a priori bad thing" reflex. Maggoty Lamb wonders if nostalgia might be as good for us today as it's always been 2011-01-25T14:13:49Z There is nothing that can be considered, a priori, to be part of the story, to be essential or inessential to the story. The Vacuum-Sealed Efficiency of “Mission: Impossible—Rogue Nation” 2015-08-03T04:00:00Z Being seen as queer is never easy when the world one lives in is coded as a priori heterosexual. There’s a lot more to a selfie than meets the eye 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The danger of this a priori politics is vanguardism, under which acolytes of an ideal believe that the ideal is more important than how they reach it. ‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’ Review: Can There Be a ‘Decent’ Left? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z Terms such as “ontic,” “identity,” “Dasein,” “a priori” and “totality” are generously scattered throughout her books and give the impression of philosophical rigor. A witch hunt or a quest for justice: An insider’s perspective on disgraced academic Avital Ronell 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z He knew that the a priori percentage play was to cash the king next. Bridge: Bridge - Vanderbilt Knockout Teams Final 2013-05-03T23:25:19Z So I don’t want to get pigeonholed as a snob or an elitist, or as someone who believes that one kind of movie is a priori better than another. film: Sometimes A Vegetable Is Just a Vegetable 2011-06-17T15:55:10Z “The balance of power is a priori unequal.” “Advocate” Documents the Battles of an Israeli Activist 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z He believes, a priori, in practicing human decency: a moral sensibility toward other people and their existences. ‘A Foreign Policy for the Left’ Review: Can There Be a ‘Decent’ Left? 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z To refuse to engage what is on the screen or to engage it from a posture of a priori disdain is surely wrong. Better to Be Interesting Than Right 2011-03-24T20:14:19Z “The sheer unlikelihood of seeing a celebrity squeezed into such an unforgiving space makes one wonder what was driving Penn,” Hambourg writes, “beyond the need to create an a priori tension for his sitters.” An Irving Penn Portrait for the Coldest Days of Winter 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z They are associated with emotional manipulation and dismissed a priori by many as profane. Beachcombing 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z And, yet, one of our two major parties now will a priori reject whatever it is I have to say or show in this book. If we can't fix this "frightening" problem, then we have "no hope" of addressing the climate crisis 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z Among people who have good immune health, can I predict a priori that they will do as well during an infection? Why Some People Get Sick More Often 2023-06-21T04:00:00Z Admitting that the Republican Party and "conservative" movement are neofascists who reject multiracial democracy would involve a type of paradigm shift that the news media and political class would a priori reject. Don't call it a culture war 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Explain the difference between a priori and a posteriori knowledge. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z We need to first get rid of those a priori borders precisely in order then to be able to understand things better. Watching her mother's dementia led her to write a book about the moment the self ceases to exist 2022-05-09T04:00:00Z “They just thought we would be, a priori, on their side.” Russia’s grave miscalculation: Ukrainians would collaborate 2022-05-07T04:00:00Z And once again, too many people will, a priori, reject her insights because they remain afflicted with Hillary Derangement Syndrome. Still hate Hillary? Get over it: She was right about Trump then — and she's right now 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z “There is a huge difference,” Biden wrote in The Washington Post, “between reserving the right to use force and obligating ourselves, a priori, to come to the defense of Taiwan.” Biden said the U.S. would protect Taiwan. But it’s not that clear-cut 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z The distinction between a priori knowledge and a posteriori knowledge reveals something important about the possible ways a person can gain knowledge. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t claim a priori that we’ll go to Stockholm. But it’s a goal.” NASA-funded startups will soon put a fleet of landers on the Moon 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z The Republican Party has already decided that free and fair elections are a priori illegitimate, and their outcomes are illegal if the Democrats win. America urgently needs a real investigation of the Trump regime — or it will all happen again 2021-05-13T04:00:00Z Carrying out Calhoun's theory as he envisaged requires deciding, a priori, that one race is entitled to greater deference than the other. White supremacy and the filibuster: From John C. Calhoun to Mitch McConnell 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z Any discussion of politics in American politics which does not seriously consider the context of race and the color line is a priori inadequate and imprecise, if not irresponsible and a public disservice. However the election ends, white supremacy has already won 2020-11-04T05:00:00Z One way to think of a priori knowledge is that it is logically prior to experience, which does not necessarily mean that it is always prior in time to experience. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z While some End Notes refer to official data, many point to ideological marketing organizations like the Heritage Foundation and polemics based on a priori assumptions. This should be American workers’ future, say House Republicans 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z These differences “supply the only sure foundation for legislation; not a priori notions of the rights of man.” Reckoning with Our Mistakes 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z “There’s no actual reason to believe a priori that they would transmit any differently.” Even Asymptomatic People Carry the Coronavirus in High Amounts 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z “Lukashenko a priori made it clear that he intends to retain his power at any cost. The question remains what the price will be,” said political analyst Alexander Klaskovsky. Belarus holds election as street protests rattle strongman president 2020-08-09T04:00:00Z The reasoning supporting the atomistic views described above is a priori. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z To fix this, we need an efficient process to manage replication designs a priori. The best time to argue about what a replication means? Before you do it 2020-07-20T04:00:00Z “There is an inherent value to free speech, because no one knows the solution to problems a priori.” How a Famous Harvard Professor Became a Target Over His Tweets 2020-07-15T04:00:00Z “Physics,” Bohr wrote, “is to be regarded not so much as the study of something a priori given, but as the development of methods for ordering and surveying human experience.” The Rebel Physicist on the Hunt for a Better Story Than Quantum Mechanics 2020-06-25T04:00:00Z In the case of the environment, the health of an ecosystem or an endangered organism a priori takes precedence over the potential economic benefit of a dam or a factory. On Earth Day, Grim Lessons for the COVID-19 Crisis 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z During modernity, scholars made advances across many disciplines based upon a turn to a scientific method and a rejection of a priori reasoning. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Most great achievements appear foolish a priori, including saving humanity from itself. Our Ethics Must Catch Up with Our Increasingly Powerful Technology 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z However, there is no a priori reason for the clouds to respond in a fundamentally different manner in conditions in which pollution tracks are not observed. Weak sensitivity of cloud water to aerosols 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Such an approach is called unsupervised learning, because there are no a priori correct answers and there is no teacher. Text mining facilitates materials discovery 2019-07-02T04:00:00Z These views are rooted in obsolete a priori notions of politics. Exclusive: Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont on reinventing nationalism in a new century 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z Anselm’s proof is a priori and does not appeal to empirical or sense data as its basis. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z If we treat these decimal expressions as essentially random sequences of digits, then the a priori chance that these two numbers match is one out of nine. Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z “This is like winning the lottery, because the a priori probability that you would see something like this face-on is very low,” Genzel says. The Milky Way's Monster, Unveiled 2018-10-31T04:00:00Z But having money and other resources does not a priori deem a person to be of the "high character" and "good morals" that Kavanaugh's defenders assume. The saga of Brett Kavanaugh: Class, social capital and endless privilege 2018-09-27T04:00:00Z Today, the press, which in the past facilitated the creation of those a priori categories, no longer is able to impose them in a hegemonic fashion. Exclusive: Catalan independence leader Carles Puigdemont on reinventing nationalism in a new century 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z The acquisition of a priori knowledge does not depend on experience. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z “If our English neighbours are fond of plates bearing the likeness of Prince Harry, in this case there is, a priori, no kitsch,” LCI’s website said. French Elysée shop sells €350,000 of goods in three days 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z Municipalist activists aim to break the bounds of traditional party politics and challenge institutional politics as they currently exist, making the language of party and institutional politics a priori insufficient for describing them. Barcelona’s Experiment in Radical Democracy 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z The approaches also require algorithm designers to decide a priori what types of biases they want to avoid. AI can be sexist and racist — it’s time to make it fair 2018-07-17T04:00:00Z This is a reassuring belief, especially in confusing times: “Each human being understands, a priori, perhaps not what is good, but certainly what is not.” Jordan Peterson’s Gospel of Masculinity 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z The difference between a posteriori and a priori knowledge is that the former requires experience and the latter does not. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z This technique, which also often involves the publication of a priori methods, is used in fields from education to sustainability. A fresh approach to evidence synthesis 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z For Kant, reason is universal, infallible and a priori—meaning independent of experience. The Dark Side of the Enlightenment 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z All a priori good and wiser to serve than oppose. How Much Is Anyone ‘Entitled’ To, in the End? 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z But that reasoning assumes a priori knowledge of what Arafat would become. How Arafat Eluded Israel’s Assassination Machine 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z While a priori knowledge does not require experience, this does not mean that it must always be reached using reason alone. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Do your homework first, and then use a rational approach when considering the evidence, forming a theory true to the simplest explanation - without any a priori assumptions. Opinion | Flying Saucers and Other Fairy Tales 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z Now I notice people using them that way lot, but it’s one those conceptual connections you might not notice without some good old a priori reflection. How to Be Awesome 2017-09-19T04:00:00Z But the mere existence of this consensus gets taken by its political opponents as a priori evidence of a stitch-up. How climate scepticism turned into something more dangerous 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z “You don’t need an audience a priori; sharing something on Facebook lets you create an audience that’s also as important as the old media,” he added. A French Campaign Waged Online Adds a Wild Card to the Election 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z But knowing that 3 is the square root of 9 is a priori, given that it’s possible for a person to reason their way to this belief. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z However, studies on the denser T2-δ polymorph revealed some limitations of these a priori predictions. Functional materials discovery using energy–structure–function maps : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z Thus, one of the results of the analysis is that different structures of energy system emerge with similar overall costs … it is not possible to choose a priori “optimal” direction of energy systems development. Republican hearing calls for a lower carbon pollution price. It should be much higher | Dana Nuccitelli 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Thus, a priori distinctions between human and non-human, reason and unreason, civilisation and barbarism underpinned the modern ideals of freedom and democracy from the time they were formulated. The Divided States: Trump's inauguration and how democracy has failed 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z The problem with the laissez-faire model is that it is a deductive argument which rests upon a set of "a priori" assumptions which are specious at best. Under Fidel Castro, Sport Symbolized Cuba’s Strength and Vulnerability 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z Kant believed that moral laws, or maxims, could be discovered a priori. Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z Therefore, the a priori design of functional molecular crystals requires a predictive strategy that does not rely on intuitive bonding rules or assumed topologies. Functional materials discovery using energy–structure–function maps : Nature : Nature Research 2017-03-21T04:00:00Z But all this was done under the broad mantle of empiricism, the belief that truth emanated from evidence and experience, not from a priori reasoning, intuition or faith — even faith in self. Trump’s most important new partner: The intelligence community 2016-11-14T05:00:00Z I don’t believe any subject matter should a priori be off limits to anyone, or that harm necessarily flows from the kind of ventriloquism that all novelists perform. Whose life is it anyway? Novelists have their say on cultural appropriation 2016-10-01T04:00:00Z "The a priori assumption that Lucy spent much time in the trees is not supported," Johanson said. Lucy, our hominid cousin, may have died in a tragic fall from a tree 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z What is the difference between a priori and a posteriori knowledge? Introduction to Philosophy 2022-06-15T00:00:00Z In fact, as Mr. Almagro tartly noted in his letter, political dialogue is useless without “a commitment a priori to democracy and the rule of law.” Luis Almagro: A courageous voice on Venezuela 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z “It is thus a priori likely that evolution would favor the development of infrared-sensitive pigments for photosynthesis,” he says. New Earth-Size Planets Would Be Nothing Like Earth “It’s clear that the level of Putinphobia has reached a level at which it is impossible a priori to speak well of Russia, and it’s required to speak ill of Russia,” he said. Kremlin dismisses revelations in Panama Papers as 'Putinphobia' 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Even if this happens, there is no a priori reason to expect this community to cause more harm when using it than anyone else. Governance: Learn from DIY biologists 2016-03-08T05:00:00Z In other epidemics, where the causative pathogen may be unidentified this is a drawback due to the need to have a priori knowledge of the pathogen genome sequence. Real-time, portable genome sequencing for Ebola surveillance : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z "Usually these sorts of events have a transitory effect on the economy so this is not a priori a reason to change the way we see the evolution of the European economy." Paris attacks: Assessing the economic impact - BBC News 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z Without a mechanism to determine the underlying genetic cause of a set of symptoms, it might not be possible to determine which treatment will be most effective a priori. Building the foundation for genomics in precision medicine : Nature : Nature Publishing Group 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z “Static utopias based on a priori notions are doomed to failure.” Burning Man's Founder Explains the Problem With Utopia 2015-08-30T04:00:00Z Our cognitive analysis is not intended to debunk every anti-GMO claim a priori. Why People Oppose GMOs Even Though Science Says They Are Safe 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z For example, he’s not a priori opposed to single-payer health care. Donald Trump, Moderate Republican 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z They come in catalogs here and exist a priori rather than being imagined by the children they accompany; this is somewhat at odds with the series, but it works within its own delightful context. TV Picks: From tube to tomes, check out these books from television writers 2015-08-07T04:00:00Z Nor do I care a priori whether the music is traditional or avant-garde. “Two Women” shows down side of new opera 2015-06-14T04:00:00Z “We refuse to accept a priori the diagnosis of epilepsy.” Julius Caesar's Health Debate Reignited: Stroke Or Epilepsy? 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z “We don’t decide a priori that two parents can decide to do anything with potential life,” he continued. Fox News “Medical A-Team” member Keith Ablow: “Men should be able to veto women’s abortions” 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z I figured a priori that the volume of news and its impact upon the public would increase and with it the demand for coherent news analysis. Why I Founded 'Newsweek' 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z Military requirements, not a priori numbers dreamed up in Washington, should shape the force eventually dispatched. How ISIS Can Be Defeated 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z They preferred a priori reasoning based on what they viewed as higher principles. The arc of early scientific discovery 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z “It is highly improbable, a priori, to begin life on a cattle ranch and then appear in Stockholm” to receive the Nobel Prize, he said. Val Logsdon Fitch, physics pioneer and Nobel laureate, dies at 91 2015-02-08T05:00:00Z First, all doors to constructive dialogue on the topic are closed a priori, thus precluding a nuanced and apolitical discussion of historical Islamic images freed from the polarizing narratives of today. The Koran Does Not Forbid Images of the Prophet Comeback player is someone who did poorly in a priori year and then succeeded. The Envelopes, Maybe: Predicting the 2014 N.F.L. Award Winners 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The first, as noted above, is that being “consequential” is not evidence of an a priori good. A consequential president 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “Too often we decide, a priori, that because animal communication isn’t language it’s pointless to apply linguistic tools,” he says. Monkey See, Monkey Speak 2014-12-19T05:00:00Z “It is foundational to the scientific method. Denial, on the other hand, is the a priori rejection of ideas without objective consideration.” Bill Nye, Lawrence Krauss and others smack down media: Don’t call climate deniers “skeptics” 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The simple fact is we just don’t know, a priori, how to craft a framework to address every problem that might pop up. Don't Slam the Brakes on Smart Cars With Too Much Regulation 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z In other words, r > g is not just an a priori speculation, but an empirical truth. Inequality Matters 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z There is absolutely no reason to think a priori that the Fed is able to handle these multiple missions effectively. The Perils of the Federal Reserve's Dual Mission: The Fed has its hands full with monetary policy, even if it backs off its fruitless efforts to improve the job market 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Braterman thinks it is unwise and counterproductive for scientists to maintain too strong a devotion to MN as an a priori principal. Why Limit Science To Natural Causes? And Who Said It First? 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z GV: I don’t see a priori why they couldn’t be from other fields. Gravitational Waves Reveal the Universe Before the Big Bang [Q&A] 2014-04-03T13:00:33Z As data visualizations leave the rigidity of traditional graphic design, and ink is replaced by pixels, we encounter the fluidity of working with designs that are not fully specified a priori. The Data-Visualization Revolution 2014-03-17T14:00:00Z Piketty bases his argument on two premises, one a priori, the other empirical. Inequality Matters 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z "It is legitimate that a law sets general limits a priori, because this way it favours freedom of expression and prevents the concentration of the market," they concluded. Argentina court approves media law 2013-10-29T22:17:01Z "A law that set limits a priori is legitimate because it favors freedom of speech by limiting market concentration," the court's ruling said. Argentina's Supreme Court upholds controversial media law 2013-10-29T21:42:56Z Or to be succinct about things, there is no a priori reason to think that generating adequate demand requires rising indebtedness. Monetary policy: Debt and demand 2013-09-27T15:51:42Z What was it all about - a disagreement over synthetic a priori propositions? When philosophers attack! 2013-09-21T00:33:58Z At one time it was claimed, mainly on a priori grounds, that XYY persons are especially aggressive, but this turns out not to be correct. Touching a Nerve: Exploring the Implications of the Self as Brain, Part 2 [Excerpt] 2013-07-27T13:45:00.477Z “The aim of exploring the influence of different lunar phases on sleep regulation was never a priori hypothesized,” they wrote in a wonderfully candid passage in their paper. How the Moon Messes With Your Sleep 2013-07-25T18:05:25Z I decided on a priori “fixed amounts” in which I was allowed to agree to do things. The-Awesomest-7-Year-Postdoc or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-faculty-life 2013-07-21T15:45:00.643Z It was not possible to predict, a priori, how patterns of fawn mortality would fall on the skewed distribution of fawns produced. [Technical Response] Response to Comments on “Bateman in Nature: Predation on Offspring Reduces the Potential for Sexual Selection” 2013-05-02T17:56:04.117Z Given a data set and insufficient rigor, you’ll likely fall prey to confirmation bias, believing that your data — regardless of what it actually says — supports your a priori expectations. Art and Science, Intertwined 2013-04-22T17:03:19Z This idea that, it's a priori completely obvious that it would be better if teens, or anybody, didn't ever get drunk. Middle School Sets Tone for Adult Life 2013-04-02T09:35:00Z And there is something a priori weak in defining yourself as the majority versus a minority. Putin Needs an Enemy 2013-03-25T11:06:00Z This requires the ability to see clearly a priori the conflict that would be created by possible results of the analysis. Meeting the Big Data challenge: DON'T be objective 2013-02-01T18:53:12Z An article about nanotechnology, a topic most people know very little about and usually have no a priori biases for or against, was presented to the test subjects. Commenting threads: good, bad, or not at all. 2013-01-28T15:15:00.223Z "While it is possible that after bin Laden's death, when Ayman al Zawahiri became ... emir, these communications were crippled or otherwise ceased, there's no reason that this should be our a priori assumption," he wrote. Insight: In Amenas attack brings global jihad home to Algeria 2013-01-24T07:06:46Z Given the terms of the trade-off, it is not clear a priori that it is preferable to minimise the risk of inflation rather than that of default. Safe assets: Make it so 2013-01-03T16:42:48Z Plus, we face far more pressure to “guess” correctly, i.e. identify a priori which patterns are most likely to be real and lucrative. Big Data, Small Bets 2012-12-13T22:02:28Z But the problem with that whole method is that it’s true insofar as you define the problem in a deterministic setting, where you have almost a priori knowledge of the answers.” The Man-Machine Framework: How to Build Machine-Learning Applications the Right Way 2012-10-18T12:09:19Z In any case, a priori, it is almost impossible to predict the future. The ECB and the euro: Too central a banker? 2012-09-07T14:49:56Z BelPaese, impeccable logic, but I fear logic, reason and facts count little among the a priori euro haters. From deutschmark to lira? 2012-09-07T08:47:14Z For instance, a compromised excretory system could cause a more severe response to ingestion and, if not identified a priori, could later be perceived as a consequence of the exposure. Readers Respond to "Food Poisoning's Effects" 2012-07-27T14:15:02.513Z It includes a guess or an estimate of the a priori "proportion of null hypotheses to be tested which are actually false". Fraud Detection Method Called Credible But Used Like an 'Instrument of Medieval Torture' 2012-06-29T22:25:34Z How do we store polymorphic information or data we weren’t aware of a priori? Seven Best Practices For Revolutionizing Your Data 2012-06-06T11:58:59Z Kant, too, believed that without some sort of a priori paradigm the mind cannot impose order on sensory experience. What Thomas Kuhn Really Thought about Scientific "Truth" 2012-05-23T19:15:00.423Z The statistic is bad not because its a priori bad, but because of what it represents, which is that "children are poor". Economics and culture: Maybe teen motherhood isn't so bad 2012-05-17T17:55:27Z It may be true that we can never fully resolved the infinite regression of ‘why questions’ that result whenever one assumes, a priori, that our universe must have some pre-ordained purpose. The Consolation of Philosophy 2012-04-27T14:45:01.080Z It carried out Kant’s doctrine of the categories as a priori synthetic principles, but removed the limitation by which Kant denied them any constitutive value except in alliance with experience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The phenomenon, in fact, accorded perfectly with the a priori sketch of it which I had drafted previously to the experiment. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Space is a necessary representation, a priori, forming the very foundation of external intuitions. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z Nor is this a mere abstract theory, erected on a priori principles. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z No one can show a priori the impossibility of the phenomena described, as they demonstrate the impossibility of perpetual motion or the squaring of the circle. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z But there is no a priori reason why other liquids should not behave to some extent in a similar way. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z Mayer was so absorbed with the view attained, that the indestructibility of force, in our phraseology work, appeared to him a priori evident. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Quoting again from Kant: Time is the formal condition, a priori, of all phenomena whatsoever. Shelburne Essays, Third Series 2012-04-16T02:00:02.027Z This truth, an a priori postulate of philosophy, and demonstrated by physiology a posteriori, was illustrated by us in a preceding article. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z To deny facts a priori is mere conceit and idiocy. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Apparently in August, when Hegel qualified, the news of the discovery had not yet reached him, but critics have made this luckless suggestion the ground of attack on a priori philosophy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 2 "Hearing" to "Helmond" 2012-04-25T02:00:53.567Z The principle of the conservation of energy is no self-evident or a priori proposition for him. Popular scientific lectures 2012-04-24T02:00:17.273Z Denying the existence of a deity, and refusing to admit as evidence all a priori arguments, Holbach saw in the universe nothing save matter in spontaneous movement. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" 2012-03-25T02:00:05.717Z The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z I am convinced that a man never really studies that which he declares a priori to have no sense in it. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z Though we cannot apply an a priori method, cannot define the materials of which men are made or the end which they have to fulfil, we can determine to some extent their typical excellence. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The dancing overhead from the Charter school on the 4th floor is too loud for me to understand the a priori reasoning of Czar Bloomberg! SchoolBook: Poll Finds Most City Voters Support Release of Teacher Ratings 2012-03-14T03:54:54Z The human brain, excellent instrument in a priori combinations is inept at perceiving realities. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This is the reverse of a priori reasoning. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The phraseology may be faulty, but it shows an inkling of the a priori. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z If we ask for the ground of the greatest happiness principle, we come to an a priori belief also; for whence is the postulate? A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Similarly there are scientists who tell us that Spencer may have been a great philosopher, but that he was too much of an a priori thinker to be of great account in science. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z There are habits of temper, of cunning and strength, of generosity and comradeship, of indifference, that it is capable of throwing into relief beyond any a priori reasoning. Steel The Diary of a Furnace Worker 2012-02-21T03:00:18.360Z "In the So-called Nineteenth Century."—When giving three Bishops a little touching up in Mr. Kkowles's Nineteenth Century, why does the playful Professor always write "à priori" instead of "a priori?" Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 4th 1914 2012-02-17T03:00:35.863Z The term leads to some confusion: for in English, by its modern antithesis to induction, it suggests a priori methods in all their iniquity. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z It is, therefore, with the defenders of the older theological doctrine of creation only that an a priori defence of Evolution has to deal. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Spencer advanced an a priori argument to strengthen the position which he felt bound to hold—the transmissibility of acquired characters. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z There is in fact no more a priori reason why an English baby, born in England, should talk English than that it should talk any other language. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" 2012-02-17T03:00:33.923Z The objection may be raised, that such a priori reasoning is not sufficient in the case, because the documents do not countenance it by their classification. Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History 2012-02-15T03:00:35.553Z The a priori conceptions of these inquirers are so rooted that no testimony can avail against them, and they have even denied what they had seen with their own eyes. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z The idea of a creation in any sense is not, then, universal, and cannot be asserted to be innate, a priori, primordial, or essential to human nature. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z "What the transcendentalist called a priori principles the evolutionist regards as a priori indeed to the individual, but a posteriori to the race; that is as race experiences which in the individual appear as intuitions." Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z You cannot even show that they are a priori improbable. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 6 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions 2012-02-11T03:04:02.353Z "It's the first time that a uniform method has been applied to all the mountain glaciers of the world so there is no regional bias, a priori." Satellites Help Scientists Quantify Ice Melt and Sea Level Rise 2012-02-09T19:15:13.780Z Therefore acquit me, please, please, of anything so abject as putting forward anything at once specific and a priori. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Wherefore, if it be admitted that legal control is at present indispensable, it must be admitted that these a priori rules cannot be immediately carried out. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z Let us consider the question briefly from the a priori side. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Hence, a priori, one might anticipate that the populations as derived from ethnographic sources would be somewhat less than truly aboriginal. The Aboriginal Population of the San Joaquin Valley, California 2012-02-06T03:00:12.387Z What I have seen, again, of yourself tells me that romantic adventures are your natural element, and I should a priori expect that much of your history would be stranger than fiction. The Life of George Borrow 2012-01-26T03:00:14.707Z "Then why," I hear you ask, "do you pronounce for my book a priori?" The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z Neither is constancy or uniformity a controlling entity: it is simply a generalization, if a universal one, whether we regard it as a priori or as a posteriori. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The next step was an inductive verification of these a priori inferences, and here Spencer utilised a wealth of evidence drawn from a wide survey of the animal and vegetable world. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Innā′tive, native.—Innate ideas, a priori principles of knowledge and of action, the word 'innate' implying that the power of recognising such principles is provided for in the constitution of the mind. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z There is no a priori ground for supposing that language will have the power to express all the thoughts and emotions of man. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z In the few a priori sciences we have named above, this perception is pure, but everywhere else it is empirical, and is only raised to universality through induction. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z This a priori reasoning is supported by facts of observation, among which those of pathology and criminology are naturally the most marked. A Review of the Systems of Ethics Founded on the Theory of Evolution 2012-03-17T02:01:00.033Z The suggestion that he was indebted to Comte for some sociological ideas might have been dismissed at once on a priori grounds as absurd. Herbert Spencer 2012-02-29T03:00:20.773Z Out of the union of Hegelianism and Positivism—the negation of absolute truth, and the disdain of metaphysics—was born a new historical criticism, which repudiated a priori the supernatural as false and impossible. The War Upon Religion Being an Account of the Rise and Progress of Anti-christianism in Europe 2011-12-24T03:07:55.507Z We cannot possibly infer a priori that all recognition of space must needs disappear with the disappearance of the particular bodily sensations by means of which our conception of space has been developed. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z But the certainty of astronomy arises from the fact that it has for its basis the intuition or perception of space, which is given a priori, and is therefore infallible. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z This determination, however, must come, not by theory or prejudice or a priori reasoning, but simply by watching the animals more closely when they are unconscious of man's presence and so express themselves naturally. A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories 2011-12-23T03:00:10.057Z The most intensely comic thing ever wrought by the hand of Cruikshank is, I think, by the absolute perfection of its reasoning a priori, a genuine "carroll" in a minor key. George Cruikshank 2011-12-18T03:00:20.137Z Under these forms every phenomenon necessarily appears, because they are a priori forms of the subject. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Kant himself regarded it as the most imperative demand of reason to establish a science that shall "determine a priori the possibility, the principles, and the extent of all cognitions." International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Therefore it is either empirical or founded upon the perception a priori of the conditions of possible experience. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z However, "It's difficult to say a priori who will be in which group," Ralitza Gueorguieva, the study's lead author from the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, told Reuters Health. Some depressed people do worse on medications: study 2011-12-08T22:14:49Z This might be inferred a priori from the knowledge of the relation of this to the other parts of the Christian system, and it is practically illustrated in the history of the Church. Calvinistic Controversy Embracing a Sermon on Predestination and Election and Several Numbers, Formally Published in the Christian Advocate and Journal. 2011-12-08T03:00:27.177Z His Kantianism consists in the recognition of a priori forms by which the subject constructs for itself an 'objective' world of appearances. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z And I should be inclined only to object to any attempt to foreclose examination by forcing a conclusion either in the theistic or in the atheistic sense on alleged grounds of a priori metaphysics. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z What is a priori certain we know directly; as the form of all knowledge, it is known to us with the most complete necessity. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It seems best, in dealing with this period, to "follow the lead of the subject-matter" and avoid a priori speculation on the factors which determined the precise form of Dewey's mature standpoint in philosophy. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z The philosophers write under their impressions of the later tyrannis, and their account is largely an a priori one. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z These are peculiar relations of presentations, distinct from all others, and only intelligible in virtue of a pure a priori intuition. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z So a finished system of a priori principles, but this system will always be in growth, will be obliged unceasingly to correct itself, and to contain open spaces. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Thus in a certain sense we may also say that will is the knowledge a priori of the body, and the body is the knowledge a posteriori of the will. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Scientific men are true to the instinct of the scientific spirit in fighting shy of a distinct a priori factor supplied to fact from the mind. John Dewey's logical theory 2011-11-28T03:00:21.547Z A Council dominated by a Pope who holds himself infallible is a priori a nonentity. Letters From Rome on the Council 2011-11-25T03:00:11.447Z From Hume's view on causation he differs not by opposing its pure phenomenism, but only by recognising, as Kant does, an a priori element in the form of its law. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z Kant rationalized the whole outer and inner experience, by means of a priori laws, into a totality, conforming to law, appearing in intuitive forms of space and time, causally and necessarily rigidly connected. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The whole of pure mathematics and pure natural science a priori is based entirely upon these. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z To be sure, the currents by which science was being carried forward during the sixties and seventies had supported him in his distrust of conclusions based largely on introspection and a priori reasoning. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z The principles there proclaimed were not abstract and a priori principles; they were distinctly the principles that had directed his Saxon forefathers in their "settlement" of England. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z For this, we substitute a picture of a world such as we should have been aware of had our 'subject,' with its a priori forms of time, space, and causality, been then present. Schopenhauer 2011-12-14T03:00:15.367Z It is only the rational a priori of the psychical appearances, but not the replacement of appearances by the truth free from confusion. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Thus we can just as little impart to him the a priori nature of mathematics as the a priori nature of right, because he shuts himself out from all knowledge which is not empirical. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Some of your phrases are bully: "reckless rationalism," "pure science is pure bosh," "infallible a priori test of truth to screen us from the consequences of our choice," etc., etc. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z But again this is not with him an a priori view, it is the result of his observations more than of his theories. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z In view of her inherent disabilities, it would have seemed, a priori, that no woman could in ruder days have attained to womanhood, inviolate. Feminism and Sex-Extinction 2011-11-11T03:00:29.100Z It is always noticeable that the a priori of the practical reason is treated by Kant quite differently from the theoretical. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The fact that we know a priori the unalterable characteristics of matter, depends upon this derivation of its essential nature from the forms of our knowledge of which we are conscious a priori. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Re Harris, I did think you were a bit supercilious a priori, but I thought of your youth and excused you. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z It will soon appear that they do not form a perfectly logical construction and are not part of an a priori system. Thomas Jefferson The Apostle of Americanism 2011-11-23T03:00:55.563Z It is evident now, that what gives validity to judgments is the fact that they accord with an a priori principle in the mind. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Kant, by his original thought of the a priori, was urged in different ways to such a view, and construed epistemologically the empirical psychological religion as imaginary illustrations of the a priori. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z This animal is a phenomenon in time, space, and causality, which are collectively the conditions a priori of the possibility of experience, lying in our faculty of knowledge, not determinations of the thing-in-itself. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z But on a priori grounds we should disbelieve that general society was permeated by artificial gallantry. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Don't they hang men on just such a priori tales, as you call it? The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z A similar remark is true of mathematical, and all other a priori laws. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z But this whole problem signifies nothing else than the actualizing of the religious a priori, which actualizing always occurs in quite specific and, in spite of all difference, essentially similar psychical experiences and states. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z It is the Idea so far as it is known a priori, at least half, and it becomes practical for art, because it corresponds to and completes what is given a posteriori through nature. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z LinkedIn is the one big exception — an a priori obvious social network that worked. The Social Graph as Crude Oil (Go Ahead, Build that YASN!) 2011-10-21T20:33:13Z "Oh, anybody can make up an a priori tale like that!" the other scoffed. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z These a priori "pure ideals" are conditional of his knowledge. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z This space must again be opened by the theory of the actualizing of the religious a priori, and there again lies another improvement of the critical system under the influence of modern psychology. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z But this other kind of knowledge a priori, which makes it possible to express the beautiful, concerns, not the form but the content of phenomena, not the how but the what of the phenomenon. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z It is opposed on the one hand to the dogmatism of groundless a priori assumptions, and on the other hand, to the scepticism of negation which finds expression in the agnostic tendencies of to-day. Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection 2011-10-18T02:00:18.363Z I was not, however, before aware that he extended his a priori views on utility to domesticated varieties which are bred for the slaughter-house. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z So is it with all a priori laws. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Kant's departure in logic is based on an epistemological examination of the nature of judgment, and on the answer to his own question, "How are synthetic judgments a priori possible?" International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z But it did not seem to Fries that Kant had with sufficient accuracy examined the mode in which we arrive at knowledge of this a priori element. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z Synthetic and analytic, deductive and inductive, correspond in a general way to a priori and a posteriori. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z How robust therefore is the faith of an a priori conviction which can stand against such facts as these! Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z In its own light it gives to itself a priori truth, and itself as seeing that truth; and so the subject and object are identical. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The a priori elements in knowledge make knowledge of the real nature of things impossible. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Kant’s analysis of knowledge had disclosed the a priori element as the necessary complement of the isolated a posteriori facts of experience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 2 "French Literature" to "Frost, William" 2011-10-14T02:00:26.280Z If the narrowing of the arterioles is brought about by thickening due to arteriosclerosis, then it would seem a priori that such obliteration should cause a rise in pressure. Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension: with Chapters on Blood Pressure, 3rd Edition. 2011-10-11T02:01:07.890Z What, then, are the a priori grounds on which it stands? Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z This question, though one of fact, cannot be determined by us, by our experience; it must be shown to follow logically from certain a priori first principles. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Human knowledge extends to the phenomenal world, which is seen under the a priori forms of the understanding. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z His ideas on the subject of women had been for the most part evolved—wrought out, a priori, from his mother as a premise. A Man of Honor 2011-10-02T02:00:16.927Z In contrast with these, and especially with the a priori method, a method must be discovered which will determine truth entirely apart from individual opinion. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z But this is clearly quite a distinct matter from resisting the a priori generalization that all cases of apparent inutility must certainly be cases of real utility. Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility 2011-10-16T02:00:14.153Z But when men intuit the a priori truth, Malice is criminal, they perceive that it lies under no conditions proper, but is absolute and universal. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z This spirit of realism is similar to that of Aristotle, in which the one-sided a priori view of knowledge is controverted. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z Geometers now profess ignorance in many respects of the exact axioms which apply to existent space, and it seems unlikely that a profound study of the question should thus obliterate a priori intuitions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z The third, or ‘a priori method’, makes a thing true when it is ‘agreeable to reason’. The pragmatic theory of truth as developed by Peirce, James, and Dewey 2011-09-29T02:00:12.190Z But here, meanwhile, is the book before me, to arrest all this a priori argumentation. Views and Reviews 2011-09-16T02:00:21.197Z Space is the a priori condition of material being. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Space and time are forms of the existence of things, and not merely a priori forms of knowing. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The cruder forms of the a priori view have been made quite untenable by the modern mathematical discoveries. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z Its adherents of the extreme left sought to construct all sciences a priori from the pure idea, and at the same time to root out from them the last vestiges of the Christian spirit. Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 2011-09-14T02:00:43.813Z The question of the increase of poverty is of course a question of fact, that cannot be settled by a priori deduction alone; but Mr. George seems to think otherwise. Contemporary Socialism 2011-09-10T02:00:28.673Z Time is the a priori condition of all created being, of the spiritual as well as material. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The foregoing discussion has set aside all hope that these beginnings and their recent development may give, of the possibility of constructing the manifold possible methods a priori, that is, before or independent of experience. International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics 2011-12-12T03:00:31.160Z The second controversy is that between the view that the axioms applicable to space are known only from experience, and the view that in some sense these axioms are given a priori. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" 2011-09-19T02:00:10.473Z In that serene holy of holies full-grown ideas leap into being,—subjective, a priori, needing no sense-perception for their genesis. John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings 2011-08-26T02:00:22.667Z Between philosophy and pure mathematics there is a certain affinity, in the fact that both are general and a priori. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z But pure Space and Time, as a priori conditions that material object and during event may be, have not ceased. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z But there is no necessity for relying upon a priori reasoning. The Express Companies of the United States A Study of a Public Utility 2011-08-11T02:00:14.563Z Such an appreciation is, moreover, fictitious; a prince who makes a law is supposed a priori to wish it executed: to say that he only meant to try us therewith is a wholly gratuitous invention. Elements of Morals With Special Application of the Moral Law to the Duties of the Individual and of Society and the State 2011-08-10T02:00:16.913Z Euclid, the great geometer of Hellenistic Alexandria, was well aware of the fact that the closing of square paths is not a priori true. What Do You Mean, the Universe Is Flat? Part II: In Which We Actually Answer the Question 2011-08-01T11:45:06.053Z He proceeds to show the inadequacy of previous philosophical theories, especially of the “synthetic a priori” theory of Kant and the empirical theory of Mill. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Space, then, as room, and Time as opportunity, and both as a priori conditions of a Universe, must have the same necessity of being that God has. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z There seemed a priori no reason why Burmese troops should not be fairly useful. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z Like most of the popular objections, it rests on an a priori assumption that thus things must be. The Teacher Essays and Addresses on Education 2011-07-19T02:00:17.220Z Mathematicians can not unravel the interlocking intricacies of their orbits, and some would, perhaps a priori, have said that such a system was impossible, but the telescope has revealed them, and there they are! Astronomy with an Opera-glass A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Starry Heavens with the Simplest of Optical Instruments 2011-07-17T02:00:30.177Z The principle involved is the principle of induction, which, if it is true, must be an a priori logical law, not capable of being proved or disproved by experience. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Further, these last-mentioned terms express ideas in the Reason; while the term Cause expresses "an a priori Element of connection, and thus a primitive understanding-conception." Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z These are a priori considerations, but they are confirmed by the experience of the last twenty years. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z In favour of an early version in the dialect of Lower Egypt is first the a priori argument of the probability of Christianity spreading earliest in the Delta. A Plain Introduction to the Criticism of the New Testament, Vol. II. 2011-06-30T02:00:31.117Z If the American people themselves are groaning under this very sort of thing, and apparently unable to help themselves, what is the a priori probability as to our voteless and therefore defenceless little brown brother. The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 2011-06-29T02:00:28.167Z The view that the law of causality itself is a priori cannot, I think, be maintained by anyone who realises what a complicated principle it is. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z The absolute and infinite Person possesses as a priori organic elements of his being, all possible endowments in perfect harmony. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z If we were to attempt to go farther we could do so only on a priori grounds. Mentally Defective Children 2011-06-19T02:00:24.963Z In his book, Dr. Gould contended that Morton’s results were “a patchwork of fudging and finagling in the clear interest of controlling a priori convictions.” Scientists Measure the Accuracy of a Racism Claim 2011-06-13T22:57:13Z What qualities give better a priori promise of correct testimony than do sincerity and a sound understanding? Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism 2011-06-05T02:00:13.200Z We cannot, therefore, feel any a priori certainty that causation must apply to human volitions. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z So, too, the knowledge by us, of any a priori law, will be exhaustive. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z In fact, they resolve themselves into Kant's two great a priori ideas, time and space. Piccadilly A Fragment of Contemporary Biography 2011-06-02T02:00:21.050Z “These results falsify the claim that Morton physically mismeasured crania based on his a priori biases,” the Pennsylvania team writes. Scientists Measure the Accuracy of a Racism Claim 2011-06-13T22:57:13Z The choice of Frederick is certainly that which requires most explanation, for in many ways his character seems strangely foreign to anything likely, a priori, to attract Carlyle. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The discovery of geometry had intoxicated them, and its a priori deductive method appeared capable of universal application. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Yet while we know that it must be such, and not otherwise, it neither follows that we know all other a priori laws, nor that we know all the exemplifications of this one. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z These are familiarly known as the arguments a priori and a posteriori. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z It was a bewildering puzzle to her, with her a priori conceptions. Roland Graeme: Knight A Novel of Our Time 2011-05-30T02:00:12.077Z Moreover, Reade was by no means the man to approach these questions with a few a priori impressions only in his head. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z As applied to matters of experience, it is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility of hitherto unsuspected alternatives more often than the impossibility of alternatives which seemed primâ facie possible. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z They can be pertinent only to God and his a priori ideas. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The a priori arguments are methods of proof in which the matter of the premises exists in the order of conception antecedently to that of the conclusion. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z The different operations and tendencies of these two species of government might be made apparent even a priori. Essays 2011-05-19T02:00:06.077Z The pre-Revolutionary writers had relied upon a priori theory, but the immediate results were so different from their anticipations that their successors were little disposed to repeat the mistake. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z Here again the same legislative function is ascribed to a priori argumentation: it is thought that there are contradictions in an unknown reality. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z What are here called assumptions are properly assertions, which man makes, and cannot help making, except he deny himself;—necessary convictions, first truths, first principles, a priori ideas. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z There are two modes in which Theists endeavor to prove the existence of God, and each of these modes is in its turn denounced by Theistic writers—1st, the a priori; 2d, the a posteriori. A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z It denies the existence of any a priori possibility of knowledge, and maintains that the mind is at first a tabula rasa, a clean slate, upon which all the characters are inscribed by experience. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z He reasons from what he does not know, that is, from the particulars of the divine foreknowledge, about which he absolutely knows nothing a priori, down to the facts of the actual world. An Examination of President Edwards' Inquiry into the Freedom of the Will 2011-04-14T02:00:52.727Z Hegel believed that, by means of a priori reasoning, it could be shown that the world must have various important and interesting characteristics, since any world without these characteristics would be impossible and self-contradictory. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Without further argument, is it not evident that there Space, like all other a priori conditions, is object only to the Reason, and that as a condition of material existence? Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Prize Essay on Infidelity," says: "The a priori mode of reasoning is the exclusive idol of many of the German logicians.... A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Which is really a criticism of what is known as the a priori method, whereby the inquirer starts with certain predefined theories to which all phenomena must conform, and which all experience must verify. Religion and Science From Galileo to Bergson 2011-04-07T02:00:16.760Z By no means; Locke was quite right in rejecting the Cartesian claim to intuitions which were supposed to yield up all knowledge of things by “mathematical,” i.e. deductive, a priori reasoning. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z Pure logic and atomic facts are the two poles, the wholly a priori and the wholly empirical. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z This is a spontaneous, synthetical act, precisely the same in kind with that which gives a simple a priori principle, as idea. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z In our country the name of Dr. Clarke is chiefly associated with the a priori argument.... A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z We should expect, a priori, that with discordant materials, the greater the formation, the worse would be the hell: and this is just what has been proved by all the experiments. History of American Socialisms 2011-03-28T02:00:20.967Z Free causality evidently does not violate the necessary, a priori principle set forth above under the title of the Principle of Causality. Ontology or the Theory of Being 2011-04-01T02:00:38.727Z We cannot, therefore, dismiss our present hypothesis on the ground of a priori impossibility, but must examine further whether it can really account for the facts. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Ever moving under forms laid down in the a priori ideal, God's power turns upon itself, as out of the crush of elemental chaos the Universe is being evolved. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Clarke himself found it necessary to stoop to the argument a posteriori, and thereby acknowledged the fallacy of attempting to reason exclusively a priori.... A Few Words About the Devil And Other Biographical Sketches and Essays 2011-05-31T02:00:28.247Z Hence if you can show to the average intelligent Protestant that a doctrine or practice distinctively of the Catholic Church prevailed in the Jewish Church, you have established an a priori argument for its reasonableness. Chapters of Bible Study A Popular Introduction to the Study of the Sacred Scriptures 2011-03-27T02:00:12.580Z In such a contest mutual vilifying of course abounded, and it is not to be supposed a priori that the vilifying of one party was more truthful than that of the other. The Reconstruction of Georgia Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, Vol. 13, No. 3, 1901 2011-03-14T03:01:05.213Z If the a priori belief in permanence had not existed, the same laws which are now formulated in terms of this belief might just as well have been formulated without it. Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy 2011-08-16T02:00:44.423Z Common Sense is the practical Pure Reason; it is that faculty by which the spiritual person sees in the light of consciousness the a priori law as inherent in the fact presented by the Sense. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z There, he thinks, is an indestructible foundation for the a priori argument for the existence of God. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z Chinese Vinegar.—This agent was found to be a satisfactory coagulant, and, a priori, there is no reason why it should not be suitable, as it is essentially a dilute solution of acetic acid. The Preparation of Plantation Rubber 2011-03-09T03:00:40.870Z Now it is true that nowhere did Franklin assert that his advocacy of laissez faire and agrarianism was neatly dependent on these a priori bases. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z There are always those who are sure, on a priori grounds, that a new invention cannot succeed because it infringes on certain well-known physical laws that make it impossible. Makers of Modern Medicine 2011-03-05T03:00:29.580Z In these words then, in this passage of the highest philosophical import, is to be found the basis of the whole a priori philosophy. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z But we must not take such considerations into account in discussing the a priori probabilities that the moon is a very aged world. The Library Magazine of Select Foreign Literature All volumes 2011-03-02T03:00:25.433Z Then he tried to construct a new language on an a priori basis. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Here, it must be admitted, Franklin did not sanction free trade with a priori appeals to the "natural order," the key in the arch of physiocracy. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Although new methods cannot be ruled out a priori for the sole reason of their novelty, nonetheless, as far as artificial impregnation is concerned, extreme caution is not enough; it must be absolutely excluded. Moral Theology A Complete Course Based on St. Thomas Aquinas and the Best Modern Authorities 2011-02-24T03:00:54.237Z The Divine Reason not only gives ideas, a priori laws, but it gives all possible images, which those laws, standing in their natural relations to each other, can become. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Without the evidence of facts, we might, a priori, argue, that excessive dryness of the air would produce dryness and irritability of the air-passages. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 2011-02-11T03:00:30.570Z At first he tried to construct his roots a priori by arbitrary combinations of letters. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z His a priori concept of a benevolent Deity whose goodness is expressed in the harmony of the creation, in effect challenged him to attempt to approximate this kindness in his relations with his fellow men. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z A priori there was no reason why a change from lead to gold should be less possible than a change from iron to rust; indeed there is no a priori reason against it now. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z To give an exhaustive presentation of all the a priori laws of the mind, would be beyond the scope of the present undertaking, and would be unnecessary to its success. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z This conclusion would hold, even if the higher faculty of the Caucasian were antecedently extremely improbable; the a priori unlikelihood would become a posteriori, in view of the facts of history, a practical certainty. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z The grammar is, like that of Volap�k, partly borrowed from existing languages, partly a priori and arbitrary. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z Shaftesbury's a priori "virtuoso theory of benevolence" may be viewed as complementary to Locke's psychology to the extent that both have within them the implication that through education and reform man may become perfectible. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Tail, shape, 89. number of rectrices, 95. experimental demonstration of shape a priori, 91. reason for shape, 98. The Woodpeckers 2011-01-26T03:00:25.210Z The full illustration of this point would be Anselm's a priori argument for the existence of God. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z For a difference in faculty, not merely in kind, but also in degree of faculty, is not only not improbable a priori—it is probable almost to certainty. The Color Line A Brief in Behalf of the Unborn 2011-01-30T03:00:15.907Z The a priori ground of this theorem may be illustrated by means of a numerical equation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" 2011-02-27T03:00:31.973Z His Puritan heritage linked with an empirical realism prevented him from becoming prey to Shaftesbury's a priori optimism. Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes 2011-03-08T03:00:46.777Z Mere a priori arguments, based on preconceived bias or on the vague and groundless impression that woman is essentially and hopelessly the intellectual inferior of man, have no more value than gratuitous opinions. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z We seek a being who never stumbles, but who is perfectly wise; and whose conduct is in immutable accord with the a priori standards of his Reason. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z To fix the proportion between money in the hands of bank depositors and non-depositors is not necessary for my purposes—a priori I should anticipate that there is no fixed proportion. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z He was a man of considered principles, of fixed, a priori logic, immovable when he had come to a decision, wholly inaccessible to impulse. The Hidden Force A Story of Modern Java 2010-12-24T03:00:34.823Z Herbert Spencer had already frankly accepted the new idea with the profound conviction of a priori reasoning. Charles Darwin 2010-12-24T03:00:33.847Z Our forebears, in their endless disputations regarding woman's mental inferiority, based their arguments on a priori deductions, or on metaphysical considerations which proved nothing and which were often irrelevant, if not absurd. Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind 2011-01-12T03:00:29.853Z The exact likeness of sight just noticed is the necessary a priori ground upon which a moral government is possible. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z There is no such a priori simplicity as the quantity theory deals with. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z The question must be studied with an open mind, and not subject to a priori assumptions. A Short History of English Liberalism 2010-12-22T15:03:38.007Z He discourses on the a priori objections to miracles, apparently without being aware, in spite of all the discussions of the last seven or eight years, that he is doing battle with a shadow. Essays Upon Some Controverted Questions 2010-12-20T17:12:31.233Z Therefore a man who does not idealise his experience, but idealises a priori, is incapable of true prophecy; when he dreams he raves, and the more he criticises the less he helps. Character and Opinion in the United States 2010-12-20T17:12:15.253Z In general, then, it may be said that Space and Time are a priori conditions of created being. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z But the two theories, resting in such divergent psychological assumptions, may be expected, a priori, to conflict. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z At the end of the day, however, one is still searching for signatures identified a priori as malicious. The Truth About Einstein 2010-06-29T10:00:00Z Given the huge waste and poor productivity in the public services, there is no a priori reason why these cuts cannot be covered by public spending savings, as Osborne argued. Ask the Chancellors debate: Verdict | Richard Adams, Martin Kettle, Ruth Lea, Fraser Nelson and Giles Wilkes 2010-03-29T21:11:00Z When treating of physics, he does not in general lay down rules a priori, but deduces them from the observation and comparison of facts. Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History The fundamental law given by the Reason is, as was seen above, that Space and Time are a priori conditions of created being. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z He prefers, rather, to rest the case for the quantity theory on a priori reasoning and statistics for the United States. The Value of Money 2011-01-04T03:01:12.363Z Even so venerable a person as Bede, during his last illness, uttered his last teaching not, as we should expect on a priori grounds, in Latin hexameters, but in English metre. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn Mathematical proofs are of the a priori kind; the conclusions of experimental science are a posteriori. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli He ought not in the first place to have denied the fact a priori, and when he was convicted he should have been glad to learn. Rustic Sounds and Other Studies in Literature and Natural History Precisely similar is the relation between Space and Time as a priori conditions, and object and event upon which they lie. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z We are in no position to deny a priori the possibility of traces of conceptual thought in those forms nearest man in the scale—whether living in their natural manner or under artificial conditions. Clever Hans (The horse of Mr. Von Osten): A contribution to experimental animal and human psychology This is likely enough on a priori grounds, though many of the etymologies of place-names quoted by Moorman in support of his thesis are open to doubt. Beowulf An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn It does not follow, a priori, that the superstructure is so. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution That these sense-organs should in fact be found to possess in the cortex of the cerebrum separate fields for their sensual nervous apparatus is, therefore, in harmony with what would be the a priori supposition. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" The Reason sees the truth first, as necessary a priori law, and holding it up as standard, measures facts by it, or uses the Sense to find the facts in which it inheres. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The historic outcome was a new crop of artificial puzzles about relations; it fastened upon philosophy for a long time the quarrel about the a priori and the a posteriori as its chief issue. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude It is true, however, that even in the domain of facts, Aristotle, like all the ancients, was guilty of introducing a priori reasonings when they were quite out of place. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy His arguments were a posteriori, a priori and a fortiori—leading the mind from effect to cause, from cause to effect and deducing the stronger reason. Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution To Kant knowledge was only possible as the synthesis of the material or a posteriori with the formal or a priori. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" This is of a priori laws, of these laws combined in pure archetypal forms, and of God as the Supreme Being who comprehends all laws and forms. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z For a short period, Spencerians might connect the doctrine of evolution with the old problem, and use the long temporal accumulation of "experiences" to generate something which, for human experience, is a priori. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The anti-imperialists are thus faced with a difficult situation which they cannot meet with a priori argument and pious formula. American World Policies The magnitude of a drop delivered from a tube, even when the formation up to the phase of instability is infinitely slow, cannot be calculated a priori. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The material to which a priori forms of the understanding were applied was the sensuous content of the pure intuitions, Time and Space. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" They arise spontaneously, being in no way dependent upon his will, but are rather a priori conditional of any creative activity. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z In the orthodox position a posteriori and a priori were affairs of knowledge. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude This faculty is a priori, transcendental, and entirely separate from all the data of experience and sense-perception. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" The "Constitution of 1875," under which, with some modifications, France is still governed, is not a single document constructed a priori, like the Constitution of the United States. A History of the Third French Republic They are a priori conditions, subjective in one sense, but objective as being universal, necessary and constitutive of experience. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" This "nature of things" is, in philosophical language, the system of a priori laws of the Universe, and these are necessary ideas in the Divine Reason. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z It is worth noting, however, that in England mechanics has always been taught as an experimental science, while on the Continent it has been expanded deductively, as a development of a priori principles. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude To determine the meaning of this question it is necessary to begin with some consideration of the terms 'a priori' and 'synthetic'. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Conversely, the existence of these solutions of the total equations can be deduced a priori and the theory of the Jacobian system based upon them. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Armed with "Man a priori," I encountered an audience of scientists at Northampton, where a scientific convention was in progress. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 They are a priori entities, and so are necessarily. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Is such a conception inherently more difficult than the view that all ramifications and developments of human interest are concretely predetermined and implicit a priori? Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude But do a priori synthetic judgements satisfy this condition? Kant's Theory of Knowledge The tonsils are peculiarly liable to catarrhal attacks, as might a priori be expected by reason of their Cerberus-like function with regard to bacterial intruders. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" Then followed "The Fact Accomplished," "Man a priori and a posteriori," and finally, "Ideal Causation," which marked my last step in this progress. Reminiscences, 1819-1899 In this sense, as we have seen, every a priori condition must be objective to the mind. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z Just as little does the term reasonable as used in law permit a purely intellectualistic view of the process or an a priori standard. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Further, the distinction drawn between a priori judgements in mathematics and in physics is largely responsible for the difficulty of understanding what Kant means by a priori. Kant's Theory of Knowledge But the great body of his doctrines are not affected by our private fancies about a priori truths or the conditions of thought. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 No doubt arguments a priori may readily be found to support the contention that the habit of book-buying is on the decline. A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time The Reason gives, by a direct and immediate intuition, and as a necessary a priori idea, God. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z And without prejudging as to the expediency of such legislation in particular industrial or business situations may we not protest against a priori and wholesale condemnation of such legislation as merely irresponsibly335 "ethical" and "unscientific"? Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude The aim of the Transcendental Deduction is to show that the categories, though a priori as originating in the understanding, are valid, i. e. applicable to individual things. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Which of the two forms deserves the preference cannot, of course, be determined a priori. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory "Yes, to begin with—and then to prove to you—logice and a priori—" "To the devil with your Roman tongue!" The Poniard's Hilt Or Karadeucq and Ronan. A Tale of Bagauders and Vagres Then do the pure a priori laws, especially those of the relations of spiritual persons, i. e. of the moral government of God, come full into the field of his vision. Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation 2011-10-29T02:00:13.723Z The connection between the savory sensation and the act it awakens is for him absolute and selbstverständlich, an a priori synthesis of the most perfect sort, needing no proof but its own evidence.... Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude Consequently, the resulting knowledge or judgement, though a priori, is only analytic, and the conceptions involved originate not from thought but from the manifold previously analysed. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Dühring, the great opponent of all metaphysics and a priori conceptions, at once sets up, just like Jean Jacques Rousseau, "the modern Hebrew," an absolute concept "justice," and transforms the world according to it. Anarchism A Criticism and History of the Anarchist Theory He reasoned a priori—He reasoned a posteriori. Devil Stories An Anthology The former is not a purely a priori argument, nor is it presented as such by its author. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" There may seem, a priori, no comparison between the change from “sour toddy” to bad gin, and that from the island kilt to a pair of European trousers. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) Synthetical unity of the manifold of perceptions, as given a priori, is therefore the ground of the identity of apperception itself, which precedes a priori all my determinate thinking. Kant's Theory of Knowledge It was necessary instead to attack the idea on its a priori grounds. A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 The only valid a priori presumption in the matter, is the presumption that the Universe is infinite in an infinite number of ways. Psychic Phenomena A Brief Account of the Physical Manifestations Observed in Psychical Research The a priori view of their origin is that they crossed Torres Straits from Australia. The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies Indeed, it would seem that his conclusion was reached from a priori considerations and that facts have been collected in order to justify it. A Review of Hoffman's Race Traits and Tendencies of the American Negro The American Negro Academy. Occasional Papers No. 1 The a priori conditions of any possible experience whatever are at the same time conditions of the possibility of the objects of experience. Kant's Theory of Knowledge It must be apparent a priori to any student of politics that the life of small communities must gain in concentration and intensity what it loses in scope and extent. German Problems and Personalities It was based more upon statistics and less on a priori reasoning than were most of the classical doctrines. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy The evidence that the Bronze period succeeded the Stone, is on the whole satisfactory; indeed its a priori likelihood is so great, as to make a little go a long way. The Ethnology of the British Islands I do not know of any a priori reason why a factor may not fluctuate, unless it is, as I like to think, a chemical molecule. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution This, then, is the process by which a priori knowledge is originated. Kant's Theory of Knowledge I believe, besides, that he proves the divine right of Slavery a priori. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 90, April, 1865 Not only on a priori grounds, but on grounds of actual experience and universal practice, we may say that patents are an indispensable part of a dynamic system of industry. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy The a priori probabilities arising from the peculiarities of their industrial occupations and commercial relations suggest the view; the historical notices confirm rather than invalidate it. The Ethnology of the British Islands Is it not a priori probable that factors do fluctuate? A Critique of the Theory of Evolution A further condition is implied, which may be called objective in the sense that it is a priori and prior to all empirical laws of imagination. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Even a priori we could not expect that, in this context, treating, as it does, of the personal Messiah, the whole section, chap. li. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 We should know on a priori grounds that this must be the fact; but we can verify it by observation and statistical inquiry. Essentials of Economic Theory As Applied to Modern Problems of Industry and Public Policy If enough people like these works for a long enough time, they are; that is, they live—no matter how much they differ from a priori standards as to what music should be. Music: An Art and a Language All the increment of human achievement goes to them—they own it a priori…. New Worlds For Old A Plain Account of Modern Socialism In a synthetic a priori judgement we claim to discover the nature of certain objects by an act of our thinking, and independently of actual experience of them. Kant's Theory of Knowledge But it is a priori impossible, that the idea of the suffering Messiah should be wanting in the Old Testament. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 They seemed never to have looked at them, listened to them, or thought of them, but hated them a priori. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 2 (of 25) This History, as to its essential features, might, a priori, be sketched with tolerable certainty. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 Both parties studied the same facts; but the a priori of their thought differed, and so their conclusions differed. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology Perhaps, however, it is hardly fair to press the phrase 'test of a priori judgements'. Kant's Theory of Knowledge But it may, a priori, be expected that the same thing shall be designated from various aspects. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 All such thoughts are a priori, and can never convince the reluctant. Landmarks in the History of Early Christianity The actual history furnishes facts and details which only confirm and enlarge what, in its essential features, we have sketched a priori. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 In the realm of Christology this a priori of thought is of paramount importance. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology On the other hand, a priori judgements are sometimes analytic and sometimes synthetic. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Could we, a priori, expect anything else, since we are on the territory of accident and whim? Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 After the two Testaments have been rightly estimated according to their respective merits, the contents of each should be duly apportioned—internal evidence being the test of their relative importance, irrespective of a priori assumptions. The Canon of the Bible And yet, if this view were to be acknowledged as sound, it ought to commend itself by stringent considerations, inasmuch as the prophetic analogy is, a priori, against it. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions, Vol. 1 That philosophy supplies the a priori, or the presupposition, or the metaphysical basis, whichever name we prefer. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology The really valid argument adduced by Kant for the a priori character of our apprehension of space is based on the nature of geometrical judgements. Kant's Theory of Knowledge The above are more or less a priori reasons for regarding the stupor as a regressive reaction. Benign Stupors A Study of a New Manic-Depressive Reaction Type Thus he could reason a priori As well as a posteriori. A line-o'-verse or two Claims that medicines swallowed by mouth could dissolve stones in the bladder seemed a priori unlikely. Medical Investigation in Seventeenth Century England Papers Read at a Clark Library Seminar, October 14, 1967 The reality of the two wills, established for the orthodox both a priori and by an appeal to fact, is denied by the monophysite. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology How, then, is it possible for human reason to accomplish such knowledge entirely a priori?... Kant's Theory of Knowledge Paine, when he was in his more a priori moods, was capable of deducing his whole practical system from the abstract rights of man; Godwin was a modern in virtually dismissing the whole notion. Shelley, Godwin and Their Circle We believe that the question whether there does or does not exist a necessary correlation among the several parts of an organism is determinable a priori. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I There are young students with no a priori repugnance for the labours of external criticism, who perhaps are even disposed to like them, who yet are—experience has shown it—totally incapable of performing them. Introduction to the Study of History These a priori deductions as to the being of Christ were verified by a reference to fact. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology For henceforward the question is 'How is it possible to perceive anything a priori?' Kant's Theory of Knowledge God, they say, without taking into account possible sins and demerits, determined a priori to exclude from Heaven those who are not predestined. Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise The possibility of such a priori conclusions will be at once recognized on considering some familiar cases. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Even supposing that there are degrees of importance among the data of history, no one has a right to maintain a priori that a document is "useless." Introduction to the Study of History The monophysitism of the fifth century had its roots in the past as well as in the a priori. Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology His chief aim is to discover how it is that a priori judgements are universally applicable. Kant's Theory of Knowledge In the latter case, as an order of determination inherent in things themselves, it could not be antecedent to things, as their condition, nor discerned or intuited by means of synthetical propositions a priori. The End of Time Hence then it follows, a priori, that a homogeneous aggregate of these unstable molecules will have an excessive tendency to lose its equilibrium. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I We cannot know a priori what was the mode of government or the language of an historical people; it is the business of history to tell us. Introduction to the Study of History These heresies arrange themselves in a sequence so strict and so logical that one could almost say that they are deducible a priori from the concept "divine-human." Monophysitism Past and Present A Study in Christology The realization of a priori knowledge, therefore, will require the realization of the three conditions in a manner appropriate to its a priori character. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Thus it is a priori likely that the stupid and barbarous will be taught by the clever and educated, not the clever and educated by the stupid and barbarous. Aino Folk-Tales Thus, that which we concluded, a priori, to be the leading cause of organic differentiations, we find, a posteriori, to be the leading cause of social differentiations. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I We must not, therefore, deny a priori the action of individuals and discard individual facts. Introduction to the Study of History Almost a priori he recognizes in the rebels, as he says, "only the rights of belligerents." Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 I also call the unity of it the transcendental unity of self-consciousness, in order to indicate the possibility of a priori knowledge arising from it. Kant's Theory of Knowledge An a priori argument to prove that God cannot punish sin in this life as much as it deserves to be punished, can carry conviction to no mind which possesses any intellectual humility. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors The general law of evolution, if it does not actually involve the conclusion that the so-called elements are compounds, yet affords a priori ground for suspecting that they are such. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I These vast abstract constructions inspire with an invincible a priori mistrust, not the general public only, but superior minds as well. Introduction to the Study of History I am sure he never knew that such proclamation was a priori pregnant with complications, and that at least its wording ought to have been very careful. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 But the implication is really inconsistent with the existence of the Aesthetic as a distinct part of the subject dealing with a special class of a priori judgements. Kant's Theory of Knowledge The doctrine of literal and plenary inspiration rests, therefore, in the last analysis, on no basis of fact, but on a purely a priori argument. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors Difficult as it may be to conceive a priori how the advance from melody to harmony could take place without a sudden leap, it is none the less true that it did so. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The historian ought to distrust a priori every statement of an author, for he cannot be sure that it is not mendacious or mistaken. Introduction to the Study of History To recognize a priori such rights in the rebels, is equivalent to recognizing them as an independent nation. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 He concludes that our apprehension of space is a priori, because we apprehend empty space before we become aware of the spatial relations of individual objects in it. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Our author says, and says justly, that we can form no opinion as to another probation hereafter from a priori reasoning, but that the question must be answered only from Scripture. Orthodoxy: Its Truths And Errors That is to say, lungs, or gills, or branchiæ, or their equivalents, are predicable a priori as possessed by all active creatures of any size. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Its growth will not be helped or forwarded by any a priori system. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 3 of 3) Essay 9: The Expansion of England Writers like Abbe Galiano, Vatel, etc., for the sake of humanity and expediency, recommend to the lawful sovereign to use mercy, to treat rebels in parte as belligerents, and not as a priori condemned criminals. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 But our experience or perception of individual objects is just as much mental as the thinking which originates a priori judgements. Kant's Theory of Knowledge Hamilton has called "the faculty of relations and comparisons," is distinguished by many philosophers from reason in that "reason is the faculty of the higher cognitions or a priori truth." English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions Clearly, then, the a priori method already plays a part in physiological reasoning. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I Now it is quite undeniable that, of these four states of things, each is, a priori, possible, some one must be true, and the other three must be false. Symbolic Logic Upon what principle, a priori, are we to ridicule and condemn it? Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thus the problem is introduced as relating to a priori knowledge as such, no distinction being drawn between its character in different cases. Kant's Theory of Knowledge While an a priori argument based on a fatalistic formula as to how a “capitalistic nation” must conduct itself does not appeal to me, there are nevertheless concrete facts which are suggested by that formula. China, Japan and the U.S.A. Present-Day Conditions in the Far East and Their Bearing on the Washington Conference That the unstable equilibrium of a homogeneous germ must be destroyed by the unlike exposure of its several units to surrounding influences, is an a priori conclusion. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The determination must be reached not merely by a priori reasoning, as though the problem were wholly new; but regard must be had to the experience of the past,—to the teaching of history. Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles So hopeless is the case of a mere crude, unadulterated fact against an irresistible a priori belief in its incredibility. Somehow Good The latter statement must mean that when sensation arises, the understanding judges that there is something causing it; and this assertion must really be a priori, because not dependent upon experience. Kant's Theory of Knowledge In Democritus's conception of the universe, personal gods would seem excluded a priori. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity Indeed, we may find a priori reason to think that the evolution proceeds after this manner. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I At most they can determine that certain places are already occupied, and that the traffic on certain lines is considerable, things that one knew a priori, which, therefore, are not worth any serious sacrifice. Cavalry in Future Wars If pumice was to be found anywhere in Scotland, we might a priori expect to find it in connection with by far the largest mass of pitchstone in the kingdom. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland It is the aim of the Aesthetic to deal with the a priori knowledge which relates to the sensibility. Kant's Theory of Knowledge The nature of our tradition precludes our ascertaining whether such a statement might have been made earlier; but the probability is a priori that it was not. Atheism in Pagan Antiquity It is just as absurd when considered a priori; and it is equally inconsistent with the facts. Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I The proposed investigation will necessarily be, in some degree, of an a priori character; not, however, as we trust, so much so as to render it vague and without practical value. Thoughts on a Revelation Bale was a Carmelite in his youth and interested in the history of his Order, and there is an a priori probability that any book dealing with Carmelite affairs will contain marks of his ownership. The Wanderings and Homes of Manuscripts Helps for Students of History, No. 17. All synthetic knowledge, whether empirical or a priori, requires the realization of three conditions. Kant's Theory of Knowledge He did not, any more than the people of Carlingford, pronounce at once on a priori evidence that Mr Wentworth must be innocent. The Perpetual Curate |
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