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apriorism

noun

Belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general.

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9
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A
Ends with
M
Contains
PR
Scrabble score
13

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noun

  1. Belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general.

    “Nevertheless, the apriorism of both neoclassical and Austrian economics is vulnerable to the kind of criticism Dewey used against Kant.”

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Nevertheless, the apriorism of both neoclassical and Austrian economics is vulnerable to the kind of criticism Dewey used against Kant.

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