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a priorism

a priorism is the alternative form of apriorism.

Meaning of apriorism

Noun

apriorism (countable and uncountable, plural apriorisms)

  1. The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles.
    • The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.1982, Dan I Slobin, in Eric Wanner & Lila Gleitman, Language Acquisition, p. 128

Questions about a priorism

What is a priorism the alternative form of?
A priorism is the alternative form of apriorism.

Words near a priorism in the dictionary

  1. a potiori
  2. a pound to a penny
  3. a pox on
  4. a pox on both your houses
  5. a priori
  6. a priorism
  7. a problem shared is a problem halved
  8. a promise is a promise
  9. a promise made is a promise kept
  10. a prophet has no honor in his own country
  11. a prophet is not without honor save in his own country

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