Sekirov Dictionary

a priori

/ˌɑː pɹiˈɔːɹi/

adjective4

  1. Presumed without analysis.
  2. Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence.
  3. Self-evident, intuitively obvious.
  4. Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages.

adverb1

  1. In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.
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