A priori ('from the earlier') and a posteriori ('from the later') are Latin phrases used in philosophy to distinguish types of knowledge, justification...

are fully a posteriori in design—many for the purposes of alternate history. In distinguishing whether the language is a priori or a posteriori, the prevalence...

In Bayesian statistics, a maximum a posteriori probability (MAP) estimate is an estimate of an unknown quantity, that equals the mode of the posterior...

can only be deduced a posteriori (i.e., the justification of the inference itself is dependent upon experience). So-called "a priori physicalists" hold...

a priori–a posteriori distinction together yield four types of propositions: analytic a priori synthetic a priori analytic a posteriori synthetic a posteriori...

name. The term a-posteriori probability, in its meaning suggestive of "empirical probability", may be used in conjunction with a priori probability which...

a posteriori since it depends on experience of the world as its justifier. Immanuel Kant held that the difference between a posteriori and a priori is...

into a hierarchy of algorithms. Often the terms "discrete" and "continuous" are used rather than a posteriori and a priori. In the a posteriori case,...

calls "a priori" knowledge, while knowledge obtained through experience is termed "a posteriori". According to Kant, a proposition is a priori if it is...

populations. It can be based on a a priori pharmacogenetic, demographic and clinical information, and/or on the a posteriori measurement of blood concentrations...

finding a priori probabilities, i.e. probability distributions in some sense logically required by the nature of one's state of uncertainty; these are a subject...

asserts that all statements are exclusively either "analytic a priori" or "synthetic a posteriori," which, respectively, are universally true by mere definition...

available, but a neutral compromise solution is identified without preference information. The other classes are so-called a priori, a posteriori, and interactive...

Are all statements that can be known a priori necessarily true, and are all statements that are known a posteriori contingently true? Do objects (including...

certification can be divided into two flavors: a priori certification and a posteriori certification. A posteriori certification confirms the correctness of...

it. List of Latin abbreviations A priori and a posteriori Bob's your uncle Ipso facto Q.E.A. List of Latin phrases (E) § ergo "Definition of QUOD ERAT...

certain the knowledge is. A central contrast is between a posteriori knowledge, which arises from experience, and a priori knowledge, which is grounded...

two Consuls at a time, known as the Consul Priori and the Consul Posteriori, and they served a 1-year term. Technically the Consul Priori was in charge...

both a posteriori and necessary is considered absurd by some philosophers (as is Kripke's paired claim that the same proposition can be both a priori and...

purity is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to protect an a posteriori claim from a falsifying counterexample by covertly modifying the initial claim...

epistemologists draw a distinction between what can be known a priori (independently of experience) and what can only be known a posteriori (through experience)...

In order to explain how an a priori concept can relate to individual phenomena, in a manner analogous to an a posteriori concept, Kant employed the technical...

since to understand a proposition, one has to be acquainted with its constituents. The distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge depends on...

fact" for the existence of God. Ananke Modal logic Platonism A priori and a posteriori Brian Leftow, God and Necessity (2012). ISBN 0191654876, 9780191654879...

that include literary theory, hermeneutics and deconstruction. A priori and a posteriori Hauntology Noumenon Facticity Thrownness Ecce Homo: How One Becomes...

Norwegian ski jumper Bjørn Wirkola. Since Wirkola would be the a priori and a posteriori star of any event he participated in, spectator attention and...

the same as the regular Kalman filter algorithm. These filtered a-priori and a-posteriori state estimates x ^ k ∣ k − 1 {\displaystyle {\hat {\mathbf {x}...

Therefore, God necessarily exists. This a priori step in Kant's argument is followed by a step a posteriori, in which he establishes the necessity of...

are the "subjective" forms of our sensibility and hence the necessary a priori conditions under which the objects we encounter in our experience can appear...

reason alone a priori (prior to experience), and empiricism, which holds that knowledge could be arrived at only through the senses a posteriori (after experience)...