a posteriori
Example Sentences
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All knowledge by acquaintance is a posteriori, but not all a posteriori knowledge is knowledge by acquaintance.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
This a posteriori saga gives us a refreshed Raphael, whose psychological acuity feels newly approachable.
From New York Times ● Nov. 26, 2020
Although this specific interaction was not quantified in this example, we view this a posteriori justification of a stereochemical outcome as a foundation for future rational design of such interactions in catalytic systems.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
Such a posteriori assessments may be titillating to our pattern-obsessed brains, but they can neither predict nor explain events.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 10, 2015
In scholastic terms this was a debate over the reliability of a posteriori reasoning; in our terms it is a debate over the evidence of things, or over Evidence-Indices.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
