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aposteriorism

aposteriorism noun: the view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.

Noun

aposteriorism (uncountable)

  1. The view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.
    • Within the former version, we have nativism (genetic rationalism) and genetic empiricism, but apriorism (methodological rationalism) and aposteriorism (methodological empiricism) are connected with the latter.2004, Jan Woleński, “Analytic vs. synthetic and a priori vs. a posteriori”, in Handbook of Epistemology, Springer, page 782
    Synonyms:
    empiricism

Synonyms of aposteriorism

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Origin of aposteriorism

From French apostériorisme or German Aposteriorismus, ultimately from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows”). By surface analysis, a posteriori + -ism.

Questions about aposteriorism

What does aposteriorism mean?
Aposteriorism means the view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.
What part of speech is aposteriorism?
Aposteriorism is a noun.

Words near aposteriorism in the dictionary

  1. apostemations
  2. apostematous
  3. aposteme
  4. apostemes
  5. aposteriori
  6. aposteriorism
  7. aposterioristic
  8. aposthia
  9. aposthic
  10. apostil
  11. apostilb

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