a priori

常见例句

Philosophers refer to these truths as rational or a priori truths, meaning that they are true prior to experience.
哲学家们称这些真理为“理性真理”或“先天真理”，意即它们先于实践而存在。
We are using logical extrapolation of experience to understand things before we have experienced them (in this way it can be said to be a priori).
我们用基于经验的逻辑推断来理解我们从未经历过的事（这可以认为是一种推理）。
A priori and reversing the terms of the problem, just as one does or does not kill oneself, it seems that there are but two philosophical solutions, either yes or no.
如同人是否会自戮一样，一个由因及果的演绎或者颠倒问题的条件假设，看起来在哲学上只有两个解决办法，是与否。

It's a very appealing kind of a priori theory, but the thing about theories is they're supposed to make predictions.
这是一个很有吸引力的早期理论，但是理论的意义在于,它们可以被用来进行预测。
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A priori, Google has probably not going to know what you care about.
作为先驱，谷歌也许并不知道,你关注什么。
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So a priori, this was not necessarily true.
所以先验的并不一定是正确的。
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It is indeed difficult to know a priori what will resonate in the market.
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Appropriate technology is a priori a normative concept which implies that its delimitation can take place only after the norms are decided.
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