Translations for posteriori in the English»French Dictionary

a posteriori [Brit eɪ pɒˌstɛrɪˈɔːrʌɪ, ɑː pɒˌstɛrɪˈɔːriː, Am ˌɑ ˌpɑstiriˈɔri, ˌeɪ ˌpɑstiriˈɔraɪ] ADJ

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a posteriori reasoning, deduction:

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When investigating beliefs, researchers should be impartial to the (a posteriori attributed) truth or falsehood of those beliefs, and the explanations should be unbiased. en.wikipedia.org

This prospect says that some knowledge gained a posteriori can also be necessarily true. en.wikipedia.org

Either the maximum likelihood estimate or the maximum a posteriori estimate may be used in place of the exact value in the above equations. en.wikipedia.org

Often these are written a posteriori by researchers, journalists or novelists, exalting their heroic exploits. en.wikipedia.org

The pure existence of a term like a posteriori means this also has a counterpart. en.wikipedia.org

This type of error analysis is usually called a posteriori since we compute the error after having computed the approximation. en.wikipedia.org

He is also a defender of the a posteriori physicalist solution to the mind-body problem. en.wikipedia.org

This is a posteriori knowledge. en.wikipedia.org

Gamblers are equating a posteriori probability with a priori probability. en.wikipedia.org

Both a priori and a posteriori estimates of the errors concerning the approximation given by these methods are proved. en.wikipedia.org

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