Such minds are à priori incapable of theorising upon his theories.
I send it forth as "Oak Hall" projects a coat, on a priori grounds of conviction that it will suit somebody.
Only it seems so natural it is improbable, for you never find your dropped money just where you look for it, and so it is with these a priori matches.
The following sentence applies to that a priori judging and uncandid class of individuals who buy their dinners without tasting all the food there is in the market.
Here in this Borgo the Albizzi built their towers when they came from Arezzo, giving the city more than an hundred officers, Priori and Gonfalonieri, till Cosimo de' Medici thrust them out with the help of Eugenius IV.
There is no a priori method of establishing aesthetic standards.
Here no a priori principles can be laid down for what only the experimental practice of the artist can determine.
The axioms of geometry therefore are neither synthetic a priori judgments nor experimental facts.
The first expression of the new idea occurs on the title page of John Bolyai's marvelous Science Absolute of Space, in the phrase "haud unquam a priori decidenda.
Buckle, who at this point of his inquiry reasoned à priori instead of inductively as his own principles prescribed.
But even a critical philosophy may be made to capitulate to authority, as even à priori metaphysic may be to a certain extent turned against it.
Then he tried to construct a new language on an a priori basis.
At first he tried to construct his roots a priori by arbitrary combinations of letters.
In fact the a priori reasoning is so entirely satisfactory to me that if the facts won't fit in, why so much the worse for the facts is my feeling.
An organon of pure reason would be a summary of these principles, according to which all pure cognition a priori can be obtained, and really accomplished.
The Critique of Pure Reason is precisely what the title imports--a searching analysis of the human mind; an attempt to get at the ultimate grounds of thought, to discover the a priori principles.
Defn: In the Kantian system, of or pertaining to that which can be determined a priori in regard to the fundamental principles of all human knowledge.
It rejects the noumena of Kant, restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories.
Defn: The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
It simply signifies the a priori or necessary conditions of experience which, though affording the conditions of experience, transcend the sphere of that contingent knowledge which is acquired by experience.
God, immortality, right and wrong, supposed by some to be inherent in the mind, as a priori principles of knowledge.
Defn: The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
There is nothing a priori or ideological about it.
Either by an a priori method of intuition, or by abstraction from prior cases.
He prefaced his romances by a sketch in the old Pall Mall Gazette, entitled The Man of the Year Million, an a priori study that made one thankful for one's prematurity.
June 23) Elected to the Priori for the months of July and August, but cannot serve because his family is attacked by the plague.
Elected to the Priorifor the months of May and June.
Elected to the Priori for the months of March and April.
Elected to the Priori for the months of November and December.
Elected to thePriori for the months of January and February.
Elected to the Priorifor the months of July and August.
Is commissioned by the Prioriof Cortona to paint, for 16 gold florins, the arms of Silvio Passerini, Chancellor of Leo X.
His son Antonio announces to the Priori that Luca cannot serve, being absent from the city at a distance of over forty miles.
What makes logic a priori is the impossibility of illogical thought.
We do not have an a priori belief in a law of conservation, but rather a priori knowledge of the possibility of a logical form.
If I cannot say a priori what elementary propositions there are, then the attempt to do so must lead to obvious nonsense.
Here, as always, what is certain a priori proves to be something purely logical.
It is supposed to be possible to answer a priori the question whether I can get into a position in which I need the sign for a 27-termed relation in order to signify something.
We now have to answer a priori the question about all the possible forms of elementary propositions.
A priori knowledge that a thought was true would be possible only it its truth were recognizable from the thought itself (without anything a to compare it with).
The mere feeling of resistance can not give the notion of without the à priori idea of space.
But all psychology must be based upon the observation and classification of mental phenomena, as revealed in consciousness, and not constructed in an "independent" and à priori method.
In estimating the value of this construction we must not attach too much importance to its a priori assumptions and difficulties.
Thus through the meritorious and magnificently sincere work of the liberal critical school the a priori "natural" psychology gave way to the eschatological.
A certain interest might still attach to the attempt to arrive at the primitive kernel of Mark; but the attempt has a priori so little prospect of success that it was almost a waste of time to continue to work at it.
Moreover, how unhistorical, even on a priori grounds, is the mechanical way in which Jesus at this first appearance at once sets Himself up as the Messiah and says, "Behold I am He whom ye have expected.
Even on a priori grounds we are almost compelled to assume that the historic Jesus will meet us in the garb of old Testament Messianic ideas and primitive Christian expectations.
That being so, nothing is to be made out of his account by the application of a priori psychology.
The treatment of the life of Jesus had to follow the lines here laid down until the Marcan hypothesis was delivered from its bondage to that a priori view of the development of Jesus.
Is it not even a priori the only conceivable view that the conduct of one who looked forward to His Messianic "Parousia" in the near future should be determined, not by the natural course of events, but by that expectation?
I have never had the least sympathy with the a priori reasons against orthodoxy, and I have by nature and disposition the greatest possible antipathy to all the atheistic and infidel school.
No man who has to deal daily and hourly with nature can trouble himself about a priori difficulties.
Pray understand that I have no a priori objections to the doctrine.
I had not then, and I have not now, the smallest a priori objection to raise to the account of the creation of animals and plants given in "Paradise Lost," in which Milton so vividly embodies the natural sense of Genesis.
Nor does the a priori argument in any of its forms fare better, for reason can never demonstrate a matter of fact, and, unless we know that the world had a beginning in time, we cannot insist that it must have had a cause.
Butler, however, retained, in spite of his destructive theory of knowledge, confidence in the rational proofs for the existence of God, and certainly maintains what may be vaguely described as an a priori view of conscience.
All this was considered facts but two or three centuries back, as no reader of old books (mostly Persian) is unacquainted with, or will disbelieve a priori unless his mind is irretrievably biassed by modern secular education.
Indeed it is not improbable a priori that the original inference involved in the notion of the other self may be sufficiently simple and obvious to fall within the capacity of animals even less intelligent than uncivilized man.
Thus the savage has a priori no alternative but to regard fire-soul as something akin to human-soul; and in point of fact we find that savage philosophy makes no distinction between the human ghost and the elemental demon or deity.
I doubt if any scholar, reading the Iliad ever so much, would ever be struck by these alleged inconsistencies of structure, unless they were suggested by some a priori theory.
In all this interpretation there is no a priori improbability, save, perhaps, in its unbroken symmetry and completeness.
It is obvious that neither of these opinions is susceptible of proof on a priori grounds; the question can be settled only by a survey of the phenomena known to us.
No a priori reasoning can ever prove or disprove the possibility of miracles--such proof or disproof would involve complete knowledge of the universe or of the divine power in the universe, and this is impossible for man.
There is therefore no a priori objection to a causal law in which part of the cause has ceased to exist.
Each of these schools, denying the absolute, rejects thereby all positive and a priori philosophy.
All are a priori but the first are felt by the conscience, and imply only a simple act of the soul; the second are perceived by the reason, and imply comparison and relation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "priori" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
