a priori
/.eiprai'ɒ:rai/
📖 中文释义
- 由因及果的, 演绎的, 先验的
- [法] 公理的, 自明的
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces
- consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which
- infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively.
- The reverse of a posteriori.
- Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
- presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience
- rational or possible.