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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


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Of course, given that the legitimating source in question is a product of my imagination, the verb "to trace" is a misnomer for "constructing" a link between electoral rules and their source a posteriori.
Volume One of the Levin CD contains, after the Sonata, Three Tone-Pictures (1910-15), graceful landscape evocations with the kind of titles Griffes would affix a posteriori, to make the music more salable.
Gestures a posteriori designated as comedy--John Baldessari singing Sol LeWitt phrases, for example, or Richard Prince putting a bar joke in quotes--are not gutturally so, while Lois (a recurring character in Dodge and Kahn's work) is immediately, heart-stabbingly funny, her monologues as hilarious as early Saturday Night Live.
 
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