a priori truth

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Hamilton has called "the faculty of relations and comparisons," is distinguished by many philosophers from reason in that "reason is the faculty of the higher cognitions or a priori truth."

From English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions by Fernald, James Champlin

But when men intuit the a priori truth, Malice is criminal, they perceive that it lies under no conditions proper, but is absolute and universal.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.

In its own light it gives to itself a priori truth, and itself as seeing that truth; and so the subject and object are identical.

From Know the Truth; A critique of the Hamiltonian Theory of Limitation by Jones, Jesse H.