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Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.Donald J. Harlow
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Involving deduction of theories from facts
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In a manner that deduces theories from facts
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based on or derived from (in the sense of being justified by) sensory experience, referring to knowledge or justification that is, or hypotheses that are empirical Cosmological and teleological arguments for the existence of God are deemed a posteriori Compare a priori
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By experience
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A sentence, proposition, thought, or judgement is a posteriori (literally "after") if its truth is dependent on how our actual experience (experiment and observation) turns out Many have thought that the truths of the empirical, or nonmathematical, sciences are entirely a posteriori, though the rationalists and some recent philosophers such as S Kripke & N Chomsky seem to deny this Some take synthetic and a posteriori to be equivalence See a priori
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After the fact
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knowledge is a posteriori when its justification depends upon the evidence of experience (e g , scientific knowledge)
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Latin for "from what follows"; a method of reaching a conclusion through reasoning from experience and observation
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requiring evidence for validation or support
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Type of knowledge that comes after direct experience
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Immanuel Kant - empirical This represents knowledge which we have after a sense experience The new knowledge we have is based upon our old experiences and now, new experiences Note this is an empiricist emphasis
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a way of gaining knowledge by appealing to some particular experience(s) This method is used to establish empirical and hypothetical truths (Cf a priori )
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(from the latter) a term applied to those proofs of the existence of God that begin with the finite order and ascend toward the first cause
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derived from observed facts
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Depending upon or being justified by reference to sensory experience; see a priori / a posteriori
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pertaining to knowledge stated in empirically verifiable statements; inductive reasoning; any justification of a belief that does depend on perceptual experience, e g , the verification of a scientific theory based on experimentation
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from the latter; (reasoning) from effects to causes
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(Latin) Literally, following after Known from experience Applied to inductive reasoning, beginning with observed facts and inferring general conclusions from these Opposed to a priori (q v ) See also "Induction " UF 18
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involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principals or from effects to causes; "a posteriori demonstration"
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using facts that you know now to form a judgment about what must have happened before a priori
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from effect to cause, inductive, based upon reasoning from observed facts
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requiring evidence for validation or support derived from observed facts
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Applied to knowledge which is based upon or derived from facts through induction or experiment; inductive or empirical
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Characterizing that kind of reasoning which derives propositions from the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects
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involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principals or from effects to causes; "a posteriori demonstration" requiring evidence for validation or support derived from observed facts
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This is the reverse of a priori reasoning
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how or on what basis a proposition might become known
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