Steve Salerno, author of the book SHAM: How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, wrote in his review of The Secret on Amazon: One seldom encounters a better/worse example of the logical fallacy known as a posteriori reasoning. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The method a posteriori is a method of direct experience. ❋ Hausman, Daniel M. (2008)
This classification of propositions, founded only on the structural properties of ideas, is the logical counterpart of the Kantian distinction between a priori and a posteriori, which is relative to the origin of the ideas that occur in them and is defined in subjective terms. ❋ Sebestik, Jan (2007)
It has often been pointed out that “Water is H2O” is a necessary truth, but it can only be justified empirically, that is, a posteriori. ❋ Russell, Bruce (2007)
The latter is that in our cognition which is called cognition a posteriori, that is, empirical intuition. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
Opposed to this is empirical knowledge, or that which is possible only a posteriori, that is, through experience. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
In the one case, reason proceeds according to conceptions and can do nothing more than subject phenomena to these -- which can only be determined empirically, that is, a posteriori -- in conformity, however, with those conceptions as the rules of all empirical synthesis. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
a priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience. ❋ Immanuel Kant (1764)
[105] Empiricism ” that is, a posteriori investigations, based on actual facts and not a priori deductions from theories, or general laws, did good service before Froebel's time, and will do good service yet, Froebel notwithstanding. ❋ Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 (1889)
The second problem is that Rene is an a posteriori guy. ❋ Mark Steinberg (2011)
It was not HCI, although it was similar, it was focused on Computing as an empirical science, combining a priori theories that can explain technologies in use-context, with a posteriori empirical analysis of what happened when technologies were deployed in particular contexts. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The difficulty, in practice, of always being able to deduce program properties means that the paradigm relies onboth a priori and a posteriori knowledge. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This was what it was to exist, to tread carefully through the bog of expectations ex posteriori. ❋ Joshua Moses (2011)
Not the sort of thing I can fake, a posteriori, to try and save face. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)
In Kant's view, a priori intuitions and concepts provide us with some a priori knowledge, which also provides the framework for our a posteriori knowledge. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)
But that is one of Taleb's arguments: we do not know a priori, or even somewhat a posteriori, what the underlying distribution is, much less if there even is one or not. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Now I guess, it does depend on your thinking - but I value a posteriori knowledge (based on experience) more … for obvious reasons. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)
