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Evidence that contradicts their thesis is a priori excluded.a priori = assumed as self-evident
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She is making unfounded a priori claims.a priori = knowledge that is assumed to be true without proof
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Some philosophers argue that moral truths can be known a priori.a priori = as self-evident or logically deduced
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You feel less need to choose specific traits a priori, believing instead that excellent traits will simply emerge if the finest individuals, taken as a whole, are brought into the line. (source)a priori = through careful analysis and deduction
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Pendants worn by her friends were a priori beautiful. (source)a priori = self-evidently
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Kant says there are aspects of reality which are not supplied immediately by the senses. These he calls a priori. An example of a priori knowledge is "time." You don't see time. Neither do you hear it, smell it, taste it or touch it. (source)a priori = self-evident or deducible
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As for us, who, however, in contradistinction to this school, reject nothing a priori, a will in the plant, accepted by this school, appears to us more difficult to admit than a will in the universe denied by it. (source)a priori = without evidence
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And that, as the philosophers say, casts a certain a priori light on your own situation, my good Castorp.† (source)
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I am therefore entitled to pronounce this, a priori, to be Latin.† (source)
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He began by alluding to her excellence, a priori, the axiom of her seraphic super-humanity, the revelation of her inexpressible virtues, no conception of which could possibly be formed.† (source)
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I have not tried either the death penalty or imprisonment for life, but if one may judge a priori, the death penalty is more moral and more humane than imprisonment for life.† (source)
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On an a priori view of Wakem's aquiline nose, which offended Mr. Tulliver, there was not more rascality than in the shape of his stiff shirt-collar, though this too along with his nose, might have become fraught with damnatory meaning when once the rascality was ascertained.† (source)
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As to the mode of composition, it would not be difficult to show that at least the a priori Wolfian arguments against the early use of writing for literary purposes have no longer the cogency which they were once thought to possess.† (source)
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Are they synthetic a priori judgments, as Kant said?† (source)
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Her feeling was rather that, given the nature of the human couple, the love of man and woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog, that oddity of human history probably unplanned by the Creator.† (source)
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Never daring to whisper to himself, lest he should doubt the truth of the suggestion, that he would always be in love with Odette, at least when he tried to suppose that he would always go to the Verdurins' (a proposition which, a priori, raised fewer fundamental objections on the part of his intelligence), he saw himself for the future continuing to meet Odette every evening; that did not, perhaps, come quite to the same thing as his being permanently in love with her, but for the moment while he was in love with her, to feel that he would not, one day, cease to see her was all that he could ask.† (source)
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