a priori

Signification (Anglais)

Adj

1. Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
2. Presumed without analysis.
3. Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
4. Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.

Adv

In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.

Concepts

a priori

à priori

héréditaire

inné

naturel

congénital

évident en soi

qui saute aux yeux

axiomatique

Opposé de

a posteriori, inductively

Synonymes

antecedent

axiomatic

congenital

hereditary

inborn

inherent

innate

Traductions

a priori

a priori

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aprioristico

priori

a priori

apriorisch

von vornherein

selbstverständlich

offensichtlich

offenkundig

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/ˌeɪ pɹaɪˈɔːɹaɪ/

Étymologie (Anglais)

First attested in 1610. Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā priōrī (“involving reasoning from cause to effect; from first principles”, literally “from the former”).