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a priori and a posteriori
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A priori and a posteriori
The
Latin
phrases
a priori
( "from the earlier") and
a posteriori
( "from the latter") are
philosophical
terms of art
popularized by
Immanuel Kant
's
Critique of Pure Reason
(first published in 1781, second edition in 1787), one of the most influential works in the
history of philosophy
. However, in their Latin forms they appear in Latin translations of
Euclid
's
Elements
, of about 300 , a work widely considered during the
early European modern
period as the model for precise thinking.
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