a priori

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We need not entangle ourselves in the vexed question of innate ideas, nor inquire whether the principle of casuality is, as Kant supposed, like space and time, a form of intuition given A PRIORI.

From Tracks of a Rolling Stone by Coke, Henry J. (Henry John)

To Mr. Eames it would have mattered little, A PRIORI, whether the relic was a femur or a tibia, a cow or man.

From South Wind by Douglas, Norman

Now, it cannot be accurately said of this philosopher that either his philosophy or his history is entirely and simply A PRIORI.

From Essays and Lectures by Wilde, Oscar