apriorism
Noun
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Noun
apriorism
- (philosophy) The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles.
- 1982, Dan I Slobin, in Eric Wanner & Lila Gleitman, Language Acquisition, p. 128:
- The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 51:
- What was needed for modern science to take shape was a renunciation of their bookish a priorism, with its Aristotelian notion that all things can be deduced by logical, abstract argument from (ultimately arbitrary) first principles.
- 1982, Dan I Slobin, in Eric Wanner & Lila Gleitman, Language Acquisition, p. 128:
- German: Apriorismus
- Italian: apriorismo
- Portuguese: apriorismo
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