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a priori principles
1. Does "a prior sense" mean "a sense of past"?
2. Does " a priori principles" mean "principles from the past" (retrospective principles"?
As such, far from indulging in a quasi-art historical – that is, retrospective – project of scholarly recognition, interpretation and classification of artists and works based on the preservation of art as a discrete form, which would probably entail the ‘communication of a prior sense’, as Greg Ulmer puts it – or, to invoke Shustermann again: ‘relying on a priori principles or seeking necessary truths’ – my account will strive to favour ‘the discovery of a direction by means of writing’
2. Does " a priori principles" mean "principles from the past" (retrospective principles"?
As such, far from indulging in a quasi-art historical – that is, retrospective – project of scholarly recognition, interpretation and classification of artists and works based on the preservation of art as a discrete form, which would probably entail the ‘communication of a prior sense’, as Greg Ulmer puts it – or, to invoke Shustermann again: ‘relying on a priori principles or seeking necessary truths’ – my account will strive to favour ‘the discovery of a direction by means of writing’
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red apple 1. 2. Does " a priori principles" mean "principles from the past" (retrospective principles"?
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- Does " a priori principles" mean "principles from the past" (retrospective principles"?
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- I think there should be "a priori sense" instead of "a prior sense".
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red apple1. Does "a prior sense" mean "a sense of past"?2. Does " a priori principles" mean "principles from the past" (retrospective principles"?1. I think there should be "a priori sense" instead of "a prior sense".
2. "a priori" means 'not based on experience, but rather on pure reasoning, deduction, intuition in contrast to "a posteriori" based on kno
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2. No. a priori principles do not temporally precede that which they govern. They precede it ontologically, i.e. in the order of causes.
1. Seeing how prior is here directly connected to a priori, I think "a prior sense" means "a sense of something fundamental."
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1. Seeing how prior is here directly connected to a priori, I think "a prior sense" means "a sense of something fundamental."
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