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a posteriori

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[Latin, From the effect to the cause.]

A posteriori describes a method of reasoning from given, express observations or experiments to reach and formulate general principles from them. This is also called inductive reasoning.


See also: analytical, discursive


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A posteriori or Inductive reasoning Arguments for the existence of God have rested on either or both of these two different approaches.
A questo proposito, la curatrice fa notare come non si abbia modo di sapere se l'inserimento della miniatura corrisponda effettivamente ad un progetto autoriale da parte di Guittone o se sia invece un'aggiunta a posteriori del compilatore, il che e indice di una maggiore complessita del rapporto tra testi e immagine (mancante), per cui non risulta chiaro se gli uni in origine commentassero l'altra o se invece la seconda avrebbe dovuto fungere unicamente da successivo supporto visivo dei primi.
To know is not to form the reality known out of a priori and a posteriori material of a mental provenance, as Kant held, but to gain information about it as it exists in its own circle of being.
 
 
 
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