apriorism


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apriorism

(eɪˈpraɪəˌrɪzəm)
n
(Philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that there may be genuine knowledge independent of experience. Compare rationalism 2, sensationalism 3
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apriorism

1. the method of a priori reasoning, i.e., deductive reasoning, from cause to effect or from the general to the particular.
2. an a priori principle.
See also: Logic
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This emotional, intuitive apriorism bred fateful habits of the pen in Rousseau, who had no equal in asserting truths for which his readers learned to expect no verification.
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And all these statements implied in the regression theorem are enounced apodictically as implied in the apriorism of praxeology.
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the apriorism's thesis: there are, in addition to empirical judgments, some judgments which do not come from experience, but have an "a priori" character.
deepens his analysis of the Vorgriff as "an anticipatory sense that orients particular things apprehended by the human intellect toward their sustaining ground" (75) in the infinite mystery of God (in sharp contrast to Heidegger's apriorism of human finitude).
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Lincoln's propositional apriorism mirrors the German idealism imported into the United States in the first half of the 19th century (at times secondhand via France and England).
The problem with the evental realism of Badiou and Zizek is its relentless apriorism. At the end of ever chain of conditions of possibility we fing the final a priori, which is the real itself: an unknowable and un-experienceable multiplicity.