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A posteriori

adjective
1.
Involving reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes.
2.
Requiring evidence for validation or support.






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... many-shooting arms, the Hindoos had taken their gods, the most ancient of deities. But the chief object of his ambition, the end and aim of his researches, was to discover a triton and a mermaid, the existence of which he most potently and implicitly believed, and was prepared to demonstrate, a priori, a posteriori, a fortiori, synthetically and analytically, syllogistically and inductively, by arguments deduced both from acknowledged facts and plausible hypotheses. A report that a mermaid had been seen 'sleeking her soft alluring locks' on the ...
— Nightmare Abbey • Thomas Love Peacock



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