a posterioriadv.adj.

/eɪ pɒˌstɛrɪˈɔːrʌɪ/

/ɑː pɒˌstɛrɪˈɔːri/

Etymology: Latin ā posteriōri ‘from what comes after’ (as opposed to ā priōri ‘from what is before’).

1. A phrase used to characterize reasoning or arguing from effects to causes, from experience and not from axioms; empirical, inductive; inductively.

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1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere sig. C4^v Your other argument..is, à posteriori, from an example of the..French King, Henry the fourth, to whom you wish his Maiestie to bee a parrallell.

1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes sig. Aiii^v This, I conceive, is not by me magisterially dictated, but already demonstrated à posteriori, by the experience which the few last moneths have yeelded us.

1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §21 I think arguments à posteriori are unnecessary for confirming what has been..sufficiently demonstrated à priori.

1834 Penny Cycl. II. 199/1 In common language, we reason à priori when we infer the existence of a God from the general difficulties in the supposition of the existence of what we then call the creation on any other hypothesis; but we reason à posteriori when we infer the same from marks of intelligent contrivance in this particular creation with which we are acquainted.

a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxi. 26 Knowledge a posteriori is a synonym for knowledge empirical, or from experience.

1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. vii. 174 Accounts of existing uncivilized races..show us à posteriori, what we might infer with certainty à priori.

2. Facetious. From behind, on the back, on the buttocks. Cf. posterior n. 3.

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a posteriori1762

fundamentally1834

the world > space > relative position > position at the back > at the back or in the rear [phrase] > on the back

a posteriori1861

1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. ix. 200 One of them clapped a furze-bush under the tail of Gilbert, who, feeling himself thus stimulated a posteriori, kicked and plunged and capered.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. v. 182 Accelerated..by smitings, twitchings,—spurnings, a posteriori, not to be named.

1861 Temple Bar Nov. 534 A golden cross sewn on à posteriori.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2018).

单词	a posteriori
释义	a posterioriadv.adj. /eɪ pɒˌstɛrɪˈɔːrʌɪ//ɑː pɒˌstɛrɪˈɔːri/ Etymology: Latin ā posteriōri ‘from what comes after’ (as opposed to ā priōri ‘from what is before’). 1. A phrase used to characterize reasoning or arguing from effects to causes, from experience and not from axioms; empirical, inductive; inductively. ΚΠ 1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere sig. C4^v Your other argument..is, à posteriori, from an example of the..French King, Henry the fourth, to whom you wish his Maiestie to bee a parrallell. 1647 H. Hammond Of Power of Keyes sig. Aiii^v This, I conceive, is not by me magisterially dictated, but already demonstrated à posteriori, by the experience which the few last moneths have yeelded us. 1710 G. Berkeley Treat. Princ. Human Knowl. §21 I think arguments à posteriori are unnecessary for confirming what has been..sufficiently demonstrated à priori. 1834 Penny Cycl. II. 199/1 In common language, we reason à priori when we infer the existence of a God from the general difficulties in the supposition of the existence of what we then call the creation on any other hypothesis; but we reason à posteriori when we infer the same from marks of intelligent contrivance in this particular creation with which we are acquainted. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1859) II. xxi. 26 Knowledge a posteriori is a synonym for knowledge empirical, or from experience. 1873 H. Spencer Study Sociol. vii. 174 Accounts of existing uncivilized races..show us à posteriori, what we might infer with certainty à priori. 2. Facetious. From behind, on the back, on the buttocks. Cf. posterior n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > buttock(s) > [adverb] a posteriori1762 fundamentally1834 the world > space > relative position > position at the back > at the back or in the rear [phrase] > on the back a posteriori1861 1762 T. Smollett Adventures Sir Launcelot Greaves I. ix. 200 One of them clapped a furze-bush under the tail of Gilbert, who, feeling himself thus stimulated a posteriori, kicked and plunged and capered. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iii. v. 182 Accelerated..by smitings, twitchings,—spurnings, a posteriori, not to be named. 1861 Temple Bar Nov. 534 A golden cross sewn on à posteriori. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adv.adj.1624
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