Quotes of: Priori Keyword

An unhappy woman with access to weed killer had to be watched carefully.

Death at the Priory: Love, Sex, and Murder in Victorian England

Art is what appeals to the a priori.

Raheel Farooq

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

Lionel Blue

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise.

Saul Kripke

Harry: In the graveyard, my wand and Voldemort's sort of... connected. Dumbledore: Priori Incantatem.

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus

Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose.

Jean-Paul Sartre

[...] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [...]

No god but God: The Origins, Evolution and Future of Islam

In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.

Robert Delaunay

I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.

Gottfried Leibniz

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Thomas Aquinas

Under the fatal lighting of that destiny, its uselessness becomes evident. No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.

Albert Camus

It is an empirical judgement [to say] that I perceive and judge an object with pleasure. But it is an a priori judgement [to say] that I find it beautiful, i.e. I attribute this satisfaction necessarily to every one.

Critique of Judgment

There are certain questions that scientists may not ask, or, more accurately, for some questions, there are certain answers that scientists must a priori preclude from consideration.

Social Class & Social Policy

If it be true that there can be no metaphysics transcending human reason, it is no less true that there can be no empirical knowledge that is not already caught and limited by the a priori structure of cognition.

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.

Milan Kundera

I've never had a chance to sit down and enjoy what's happened - I've been too panicked about the next move. So I took some time out. I thought either I do this now or in 10 years' time I'll end up in the Priory.

Adam Rickitt

We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness

Was nicht ein Gegenstand der Erfahrung sein kann, dessen Erkenntniß wäre hyperphysisch, und mit dergleichen haben wir hier gar nicht zu thun, sondern mit der Naturerkenntniß, deren Realität durch Erfahrung bestätigt werden kann, on sie gleich a ...

Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics

Extremely unlikely events occur every moment and it is not a priori unthinkable that the evolution of life should be due to mere chance than that a particular order in a pack of cards should result from mechanical shuffling.

Religion: If There is No God...on God, the Devil, Sin and Other Worries of the So-Called Philosophy of Religion