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apriority|eɪprɪˈɒrɪtɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ity, after priority.]
1. The quality of being original and underived from experience; innateness in the mind.
1854Tulk tr. Chalybaus' Hist. Philos. ii. 29 The same Kantian criterion of a-priority. 1870C. Peirce Notation Log. Rel. 51 The question concerning the apriority of space. 1879Lewes Stud. Psychol. 176 His forms are pure abstractions, and he declines to predicate anything of them except their à-priority and universality.
2. Deductiveness; practice of à priori reasoning.
1879Athenæum 12 July 44/2 The sublime apriority of Prof. Fawcett descends to such concrete matters as Indian Exchequer Bills. |