A POSTERIORI

By SovConn | August 21, 2014

a posteriori (ay pos-teer-ee-or-Ior ah pos-teer-ee-or-ee), adv.[Latin “from what comes after”]

Inductively; from the particular to the general, or from known effects to their inferred causes <as a

legal analyst, she reasoned a posteriori — from countless individual cases to generalized rules that

she finally applied>. Cf. A PRIORI. — a posteriori,adj. [Blacks Law 8th]

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