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Such ugliness stems logically from the a prioristic approach to libertarianism.

Let Me Teach You My Secret Beltway Handshake 2008

It's no surprise that the classical rather a-prioristic theory fails to be descriptively adequate, and to criticize it on these grounds rather misses its normative point.

The St. Petersburg Paradox Martin, Robert 2008

The dominant Aristotelian thought of the day was heavily a prioristic; hence part of what was involved was a dispute about the relative importance of observation and a priori thought in astronomy.

Religion and Science Plantinga, Alvin 2007

Therefore, a competent geometry must be a physical geometry, which must be defined so, without any Euclidean or other Sophist's a-prioristic mumbo-jumbo added.

LaRouche's Latest 2009

This situates the subject of this report within the bounds of a notion of a universal principle of harmonics, rather than particles interacting kinematically, as proposed according to the modern reductionists 'empty, a-prioristic,

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Thus, the elimination of the a-priori notions of time and space, together, or respectively, typifies the existence of a dividing-line between true inductive reasoning and childish, a-prioristic presumptions respecting whatever reality is affected by this matter.

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The very fact that we reject those a-prioristic presumptions alerts us to some great fallacy of assumption in our way of thinking about the relevant subject-matter.

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The fact that the strict interpretation of the case for Euclidean geometry is false relative to the crucial physical-experimental evidence, and that repeatedly, demonstrates that those assumptions based on the a-prioristic presumptions of such products of the Aristotle-Euclid presumption, and the modern perversion of that presumption known as empiricism, are intrinsically false to reality.

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In a related way, I echo the great Eighteenth-century mathematician Abraham Kästner's opposition to the essentially arbitrary, radically reductionist, a-prioristic notion of a Euclidean geometry.

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This was the premise employed, as by Gottfried Leibniz, for the still ongoing process of freeing physical science from the later, modern a-prioristic, reductionist Liberalism of Paolo Sarpi follower Rene Descartes and Descartes 'empiricist followers of Europe's Eighteenth Century.

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