priori

• “To presume as much a priori is an insult to law enforcement.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On

• “Trying to justify spin-offs a priori is nearly impossible.”

  Less Pizza, More NASA - NASA Watch

• “July 11th, 2009 at 6: 31 pm ash: the a priori is that things are going in a direction towards an end.”

  A Materialist Red Herring

• “Third: back to teleology: the a priori is that things are going in a direction towards an end.”

  A Materialist Red Herring

• “As Kant explains, “if I cannot publicly avow it without inevitably exciting universal opposition to my project, the necessary and universal opposition which can be foreseen a priori is due only to the injustice with which the maxim threatens everyone.””

  Balkinization

• “[3] The term a priori is not, in fact, applied with any consistency even to these arguments, some of the different forms of the Cartesian argument, and that of Clarke especially, resting on an express datum of experience; whereas it is the pretension of a pure a priori argument to demonstrate the Divine existence from the formal conceptions of the human mind.”

  Theism: The Witness of Reason and Nature to an All-Wise and Beneficent Creator.

• “To presume as much a priori is an insult to law enforcement. the intellectual dishonesty of those opposed to Arizona’s Law, includng the racial profiling canard, is good sign that the REAL problem is that it will be a fair yet effective deterrent to illegal immigration — thereby exposing the lies of the ‘you-cant-enfoce-it’ open-borders advocates.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why the Arizona Law is Much Worse than the Federal Law It is Supposedly Based On

• “(Note that Clarke's use of the term a priori is not that which has been standard since Kant.”

  Samuel Clarke

• “I think it has a great deal to do with what we believe a priori, which is to a great extent culturally determined.”

  “Believable character”

• “A basic theme of these discussions is that the fundamental philosophical issues must be addressed a priori, that is, without drawing on observations of human beings and their behavior.”

  Kant's Moral Philosophy

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