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a posteriori

a posteriori adjective: involving induction of theories from facts.

Adjective

a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)

  1. Involving induction of theories from facts.
    • What Locke calls "knowledge" they have called "a priori knowledge"; what he calls "opinion" or "belief" they have called "a posteriori" or "empirical knowledge".1988, R. S. Woolhouse, The empiricists, Oxford University Press
    Synonyms:
    empirical, inductive
    Antonyms:
    a priori, deductive
  2. Of a constructed language, Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.
    Antonyms:
    a priori

Adverb

a posteriori (comparative more a posteriori, superlative most a posteriori)

  1. In a manner that deduces theories from facts.
    • FALLACIES of the modern worldview have to do with the conception of the world as substance or machinery, mistaking abstractions for reality, confusing origins and truth, failing to attribute feeling to things that feel, recognising ethics as exclusively anthropocentric, thinking a posteriori...1991, New Scientist
    Synonyms:
    inductively[Appendix:Glossary

a posteriori meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Tagalog and Arabic

a posteriori in Hindi

in a manner that deduces theories from facts
अनुभवजन्य anubhavjanya

a posteriori in Tamil

பின்னறி, நுகர்ச்சிக்குப்பின் பெற்ற, விளைவிலிருந்து மூலம் காணும் வகையில்

a posteriori in Tagalog

involving deduction of theories from facts
masiranin

a posteriori in Arabic

in a manner that deduces theories from facts
البعديَة alʔbādiya
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a posteriori in Vietnamese
hậu nghiệm

Synonyms of a posteriori

Antonyms

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Forms of a posteriori

Adjective
comparativemore a posteriori
superlativemost a posteriori
Adverb
comparativemore a posteriori
superlativemost a posteriori

Origin of a posteriori

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.

Questions about a posteriori

What does a posteriori mean?
A posteriori means involving induction of theories from facts.
What is a posteriori in Hindi?
A posteriori in Hindi is अनुभवजन्य (anubhavjanya). See A posteriori meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is a posteriori?
A posteriori can be an adjective or an adverb.

Words near a posteriori in the dictionary

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  2. A plus
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  4. A Pobra do Caramiñal
  5. A positive
  6. a posteriori
  7. a potiori
  8. a pound to a penny
  9. a pox on
  10. a pox on both your houses
  11. a priori

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: a posteriori (page history and authors); a posteriori (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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