Definition of "a posteriori" [a• pos•te•ri•o•ri]

• Derived by or designating the process of reasoning from facts or particulars to general principles or from effects to causes; inductive; empirical. (adjective)
• Justified by appeal to experience. (adjective)
• Knowable from experience. (adjective)

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• "I say special training, meaning, that which takes up the subject scientifically, with a priori, and a posteriori evidence: -- of things not seen -- with homiletical and hermaneutical arrangement, and discussion in sermonizing."
• "But the difficulty is with regard to this preliminary admission, which if challenged -- as it is in fact challenged by Agnostics -- requires to be justified by recurring to the a posteriori argument, i.e. to the inference by way of causality from contingency to self-existence and thence by way of deduction to infinity."
• "Well, Aries Tottle flourished supreme until the advent of one Hog, surnamed the 'Ettrick Shepherd', who preached an entirely different system, which he called the a posteriori or inductive."