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A Posteriori

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Adjective

1. a posteriori

involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes

Example Sentences:
'a posteriori demonstration'

2. a posteriori

requiring evidence for validation or support

Adverb

3. a posteriori

derived from observed facts

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

A Posteriori

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adjective logic
1. 
relating to or involving inductive reasoning from particular facts or effects to a general principle
2. 
derived from or requiring evidence for its validation or support; empirical; open to revision
3. statistics posterior probability

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A Posteriori

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1. 
from effect to cause, or from particular instances to a generalization; inductive or inductively
2. 
based on observation or experience; empirical

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

A Posteriori

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adj.
1. Derived by or designating the process of reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes; inductive; empirical.
2.
a. Justified by appeal to experience.
b. Knowable from experience.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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