aposteriorism

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noun

The view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.

Similar
empiricism
Opposite
apriorism
OriginFrench apostériorisme ← German Aposteriorismus ← Latin ā posteriōrī →
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Meanings

nounaposteriorism (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.

    Within the former version, we have nativism (genetic rationalism) and genetic empiricism, but apriorism (methodological rationalism) and aposteriorism (methodological empiricism) are connected with the latter.

    2004, Jan Woleński, “Analytic vs. synthetic and a priori vs. a posteriori”, in Handbook of Epistemology, Springer, page 782

    Synonyms: empiricism

Synonyms & antonyms

nounThe view that all knowledge is derived from sense experience; empiricism as opposed to apriorism.

Similar
empiricism
Opposite
apriorism

Origin

  1. Latinā posteriōrī“from what follows”
  2. GermanAposteriorismus
  3. Frenchapostériorisme
  4. Englishaposteriorism

From French apostériorisme or German Aposteriorismus, ultimately from Latin ā posteriōrī (“from what follows”). By surface analysis, a posteriori + -ism.

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