a priori evidence

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• evidence — /ev i deuhns/, n., v., evidenced, evidencing. n. 1. that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof. 2. something that makes plain or clear; an indication or sign: His flushed look was visible evidence of his fever. 3.… …   Universalium

• Evidence — For other uses, see Evidence (disambiguation). Evidence in its broadest sense includes everything that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion. Giving or procuring evidence is the process of using those things that are… …   Wikipedia

• A priori (statistics) — In statistics, a priori knowledge refers to prior knowledge about a population, rather than that estimated by recent observation. It is common in Bayesian inference to make inferences conditional upon this knowledge, and the integration of a… …   Wikipedia

• a priori, prima facie —    Both generally refer to evidence and thus are sometimes confused. Prima facie means at first sight or on the surface of it and refers to matters in which not all of the evidence has been collected but such evidence as there is points to… …   Dictionary of troublesome word

• a priori, prima facie —    Both generally refer to evidence and thus are sometimes confused. Prima facie means at first sight or on the surface of it and refers to matters in which not all of the evidence has been collected but such evidence as there is points to… …   Dictionary of troublesome word

• a priori — [[t]e͟ɪ praɪɔ͟ːraɪ[/t]] ADJ: usu ADJ n An a priori argument, reason, or probability is based on an assumed principle or fact, rather than on actual observed facts. In the absence of such evidence, there is no a priori hypothesis to work with. ADV …   English dictionary

• epistemology — epistemological /i pis teuh meuh loj i keuhl/, adj. epistemologically, adv. epistemologist, n. /i pis teuh mol euh jee/, n. a branch of philosophy that investigates the origin, nature, methods, and limits of human knowledge. [1855 60; < Gk… …   Universalium

• metaphysics — /met euh fiz iks/, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy that treats of first principles, includes ontology and cosmology, and is intimately connected with epistemology. 2. philosophy, esp. in its more abstruse branches. 3. the… …   Universalium

• Variable régionalisée — La VR comme phénomène physique : topographie de la ville de Binche …   Wikipédia en Français

• EMPIRISME — L’empirisme, chez les Grecs, était une forme de scepticisme rattachée à l’école de Pyrrhon. Il nous est connu par l’ouvrage de Sextus Empiricus (IIe IIIe siècle) Hypotyposes pyrrhoniennes . Fondé sur une analyse des critères du jugement, il est… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

• Inférence bayésienne — On nomme inférence bayésienne la démarche logique permettant de calculer ou réviser la probabilité d un événement. Cette démarche est régie en particulier par théorème de Bayes. Dans la perspective bayésienne, une probabilité n est pas… …   Wikipédia en Français