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apriorism

[ey-prahy-awr-iz-uhm, -ohr-, ey-pree-, ah-pree-] / ˌeɪ praɪˈɔr ɪz əm, -ˈoʊr-, ˌeɪ pri-, ˌɑ pri- /






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Because Review tries to avoid what Buckley calls "extreme apriorism," it has parted company with some dogmatic conservatives.

From Time Magazine Archive

But does it follow from the failure of empiricism that apriorism is true?

From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray

Nor are the biologists quite satisfied with Spencer's reconciliation, between empiricism and apriorism, for, in the form he gave it, there is the tacit assumption that results of experience are as such transmissible.

From Herbert Spencer by J. Arthur (John Arthur) Thomson

A postulate thus fully meets the demands of apriorism.

From Pragmatism by D. L. Murray

He combats the apriorism of Kant in ethics as elsewhere.

From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg




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