"A Priori" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A term used in logic to de-note an argument founded on analogy, or ab-stract considerations, or one which, positing a general principle or admitted truth as a cause, proceeds to deduce from it the effects which must necessarily follow
Applied to knowledge and conceptions assumed, or
presupposed, as prior to experience, in order to make experience
rational or possible.
Characterizing that kind of reasoning which deduces
consequences from definitions formed, or principles assumed, or which
infers effects from causes previously known; deductive or deductively.
The reverse of a posteriori.
One of the hardest-to-swallow, most countercultural, counter intuitive implications of the gospel is that bearing up under a difficult burden with patient perseverance is a good thing.
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