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Jackson6612 Posted 15 years ago
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A priori, a posteriori
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I'm having difficulty understanding the meaning of "a priori" and "a posteriori" so I will use example sentences to understand the definitions. Please help me to understand them. Thank you.
"There's no a priori reason to think your expenses will remain the same in a new city." -: It is not possible to know whether your expenses will go up in a new city because you have not lived there before and have little knowledge about things like rents, public transport, electricity tariff, etc. Well, you can still guess.
"You can't justify what you did a posteriori." -: I think it's not possible to justify what someone did through reason but you have to explain everything in a context and make others observe your inner emotions for doing what you did.
a priori
formal : relating to what can be known through an understanding of how certain things work rather than by observation
? There's no a priori reason to think your expenses will remain the same in a new city.
a posteriori
formal : relating to what can be known by observation rather than through an understanding of how certain things work
? an a posteriori judgment/justification/explanation— compare a priori
— a posteriori adverb
? You can't justify what you did a posteriori.
[M-W Advanced Learner's Dic.]
I'm having difficulty understanding the meaning of "a priori" and "a posteriori" so I will use example sentences to understand the definitions. Please help me to understand them. Thank you.
"There's no a priori reason to think your expenses will remain the same in a new city." -: It is not possible to know whether your expenses will go up in a new city because you have not lived there before and have little knowledge about things like rents, public transport, electricity tariff, etc. Well, you can still guess.
"You can't justify what you did a posteriori." -: I think it's not possible to justify what someone did through reason but you have to explain everything in a context and make others observe your inner emotions for doing what you did.
a priori
formal : relating to what can be known through an understanding of how certain things work rather than by observation
? There's no a priori reason to think your expenses will remain the same in a new city.
a posteriori
formal : relating to what can be known by observation rather than through an understanding of how certain things work
? an a posteriori judgment/justification/explanation— compare a priori
— a posteriori adverb
? You can't justify what you did a posteriori.
[M-W Advanced Learner's Dic.]
Top answer
I don't think your 2nd example is correct, and I suspect that you are over-thinking the meanings. A priori just means 'beforehand, before the fact' and a posteriori just means 'afterwards, after the fact'. Our a priori expectations were that the state-based CART classification model would perform better One knows it, not by a priori theorizing, but by a posteriori research, interpretation, history, dialectic Christianity's truth, he says, comes not from some a priori authority, but is corroborated by its coherence with all that is true.
- I don't think your 2nd example is correct, and I suspect that you are over-thinking the meanings.
- A priori just means 'beforehand, before the fact' and a posteriori just means 'afterwards, after the fact'.
- Our a priori expectations were that the state-based CART classification model would perform better One knows it, not by a priori theorizing, but by a posteriori research, interpretation, history, dialectic Christianity's truth, he says, comes not from some a priori authority, but is corroborated by its coherence with all that is true.
- Cancer Institute invests only a minuscule amount to prevent cancers, opting predominantly for a posteriori treatment.
- What motivated inflation, according to Steinhardt, was an a posteriori prediction, or " postdiction.
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I don't think your 2nd example is correct, and I suspect that you are over-thinking the meanings. A priori just means 'beforehand, before the fact' and a posteriori just means 'afterwards, after the fact'.
Our a priori expectations were that the state-based CART classification model would perform better
One knows it, not by a
Our a priori expectations were that the state-based CART classification model would perform better
One knows it, not by a
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