aprioricity

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A form of apriority — The quality or state of being known a priori.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

nounaprioricity (uncountable)
  1. alternativeuncountablehuman sciencesAlternative form of apriority.

    On the other hand, positive philosophy is empirical aprioricity, or it is the empiricism of the a priori, to the extent that it proves itself the prius per posterius as God.

    2010 July 21, Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1-15, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 695
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    He claims that Kant's transcendental proofs, at least of the necessity of the law of causality, are not directed towards establishing the truth or validity of causal law, but only its aprioricity.

    2015 January 30, Dale Jacquette, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Routledge, →ISBN

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