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apriorism|eɪprɪˈɔərɪz(ə)m|
[f. prec. + -ism, after mod.F. apriorisme.]
Employment of a priori reasoning; concr. an a priori idea, or principle. Also, the philosophical doctrine of a priori or innate ideas (see a priori 3). So apriˈorist, one who holds this doctrine; also loosely, one given to a priori reasoning; also attrib. or as adj.; hence aprioˈristic a., pertaining to apriorism or apriorists.
1873Lewes Probl. Life & Mind Ser. i. I. 412 This will be disputed by the à priorists. 1874Watson & Evans tr. Van Oosterzee's Christian Dogmatics I. 141 No authority..must..be conceded to such an aprioristic criticism. Ibid. II. 596 However little..inclined to an abstract a-priorism. 1883in Chicago Advance 13 Sept., Apriorisms as ultimate grounds of knowledge. 1889Athenæum 2 Feb. 152/3 The problem of external perception has a unique character among the controversies that divide the empiricists and the apriorists. 1889G. B. Shaw Fabian Ess. Socialism 177 The apriorist notion that among free competitors wealth must go to the industrious. 1891Monist I. 635 Empiricism is wrong because it can at best show the temporal succession of two phenomena, and apriorism is wrong because a priori knowledge lies in the subject alone and not in the object. 1914Teixeira de Mattos tr. Maeterlinck's Unknown Guest iii. 42 The ‘apriorists’, who hold that the idea of time is innate. 1930Philosophy V. 449 This Experimental Empiricism or Operational Apriorism is obviously attractive. 1934T. S. Eliot Eliz. Essays 173 His statement is too apriorist to be quite trustworthy. 1958Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Jan. 25/4 The vast advances of science..have set up strong, though often unformulated, resistances against aprioristic ethics or philosophies. |