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A Posteriori

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a posteriori 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
A Posteriori 

knowledge acquired through experience. This method of acquiring knowledge was already being examined in antiquity by Aristotle, Plato, and Boethius and in the Middle Ages by Averroës (ibn Rushd), Avicenna (ibn Sina), Albert von Bollstädt, Thomas Aquinas, and others. The analysis of cognition a posteriori occupied an important place in the system of I. Kant, who proposed that the special laws of science can be recognized only a posteriori but that the general principles of cognition are independent of any experience—that is, a priori.
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A posteriori or Inductive reasoning Arguments for the existence of God have rested on either or both of these two different approaches.
Possibility of Proof for the Existence of God by franklyn fernando / Philosophy and religion community
A questo proposito, la curatrice fa notare come non si abbia modo di sapere se l'inserimento della miniatura corrisponda effettivamente ad un progetto autoriale da parte di Guittone o se sia invece un'aggiunta a posteriori del compilatore, il che e indice di una maggiore complessita del rapporto tra testi e immagine (mancante), per cui non risulta chiaro se gli uni in origine commentassero l'altra o se invece la seconda avrebbe dovuto fungere unicamente da successivo supporto visivo dei primi.
Roberta Capelli, ed.: Guittone d'Arezzo. Del carnale amore by Borra, Antonello / Italica
To know is not to form the reality known out of a priori and a posteriori material of a mental provenance, as Kant held, but to gain information about it as it exists in its own circle of being.
The Epistemology of Evolution by Lynette Tyson / Reference and Education community
 
 
 
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