Apriority

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The quality or state of being known a priori
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The quality of being innate in the mind, or prior to experience; a priori reasoning.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In philosophy, the character of being underived from experience, or of being a priori.
  • Word Usage
    "But as the philosopher Morton White has pointed out, Dewey nevertheless played a little fast and loose with apriority: In his Logic [: The Theory of Inquiry, 1938] Dewey makes a distinction between what he calls "existential" and "ideational" propositions which resembles that between synthetic and analytic statements."