a priori

Related to a priori: a posteriori

a priori

Believed without question. I'm shocked that there are people who just have an a priori acceptance of such wild theories.
See also: priori
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • priori
  • ain’t 1
  • a wild card word for words beginning with
  • go out of
  • other than
  • other than (something)
  • pillow-biter
  • let something drop
  • play cards
  • on one
References in periodicals archive
The Notion of the A Priori is the English translation of Mikel Dufrenne's 1959 work La Notion D 'A Priori.
The introduction criticizes the Kantian a priori which confers meaning on experience while remaining 'independent of experience and..
Mikel Dufrenne: The Notion of the A Priori
The First still attempts an a priori demonstration that our cognitive methods satisfy some (weak) criterion of adequacy.
Infallibilism about a priori justification is the thesis that for an agent A to be a priori justified in believing p, that which justifies A's belief that p must guarantee the truth of p.
PHILOSOPHY AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL RESEARCH: Vol. 41, No. 1, July 2000
Inspiration for Cassam's approach is drawn from Kant's account of synthetic a priori knowledge, and is it is also influenced by Dray, Nozick and Peacocke (Chapter 1).
Quassim Cassam: The Possibility of Knowledge