Priori Quotes
51 quotes by 41 authors
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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
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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor of genetics, who said it…
— John Lennox
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Among all the occurrences possible in the universe the a priori probability of any particular one of them verges upon zero. Yet the universe exists;…
— Jacques Monod
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What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
— Robert Delaunay
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For chemistry is no science form'd à priori; 'tis no production of the human mind, framed by reasoning and deduction: it took its rise from…
— Herman Boerhaave
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Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
— Immanuel Kant
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What I most cherish is the observation of the movement of colors. Only in this have I found the laws of those simultaneous and complementary…
— August Macke
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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved…
— John Polkinghorne
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As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to…
— C. D. Broad
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Given the complexity of interpersonal relationships and institutions and the complexity of co-ordination of the actions of many people, it is enormously unlikely that, even…
— Robert Nozick
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The exact sciences also start from the assumption that in the end it will always be possible to understand nature, even in every new field…
— Werner Heisenberg
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Notwithstanding their attacks on the basic conception of rationalism, on synthetic a priori judgments, that is, material propositions that cannot be contradicted by any experience,…
— Max Horkheimer
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The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial…
— Edmund Burke
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The ultimate arbiter of truth is experiment, not the comfort one derives from one's a priori beliefs, nor the beauty or elegance one ascribes to…
— Lawrence M. Krauss
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No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner…
— Milan Kundera
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Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise
— Saul Kripke
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Faith in people is an a priori requirement for dialogue.
— Paulo Freire
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Evolutionists ... have a prior commitment, a commitment to naturalism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept…
— Richard Lewontin
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Science asks no questions about the ontological pedigree or a priori character of a theory, but is content to judge it by its performance; and…
— Chauncey Wright
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