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
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
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
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 )
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
(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
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
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