aprioricity

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

apriori +‎ -icity

Noun[edit]

aprioricity (uncountable)

  1. (philosophy) Alternative form of apriority.
    • 2010 July 21, Søren Kierkegaard, Kierkegaard's Journals and Notebooks, Volume 3: Notebooks 1-15, Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 695:
      On the other hand, positive philosophy is empirical aprioricity, or it is the empiricism of the a priori, to the extent that it proves itself the prius per posterius as God.
    • 2015 January 30, Dale Jacquette, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Routledge, →ISBN:
      He claims that Kant's transcendental proofs, at least of the necessity of the law of causality, are not directed towards establishing the truth or validity of causal law, but only its aprioricity.