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Space and Time : a Priori and A Posteriori Studies. by Fano, Vincenzo

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The a priori in the thought of Descartes : cognition, method and science by Palkoska, Jan

Table of Contents: “…5.3.2 Heuristic Analysis in Aristotle5.3.3 Heuristic Analysis in Renaissance Aristotelianism; 5.3.4 Some Similarities to Descartes on Analysis; 5.4. Analysis as A Priori in Descartes; 5.4.1 Culs-de-Sac; 5.4.2 A Speculative Suggestion; 5.5 Coda: Synthesis as A Posteriori in Descartes; Appendix: Abbreviations; Bibliography; General Index…”
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Global Regularity and Uniqueness of Solutions in a Surface Growth Model Using Rigorous a-Posteriori Methods. by Nolde, Christian

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Optimal Control of Switched Systems with Application to Networked Embedded Control Systems. by Görges, Daniel

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Le droit au mensonge : L'ouvrage analyse de manière transversale les cas dans lesquels une personne est légalement (parce que la loi l'autorise a priori) ou légitimement (parce qu'une juridiction l'a reconnu a posteriori) " en droit " de proférer des mensonges. by Mouffe, Bernard

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A companion to nineteenth-century philosophy

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; Chronology of Nineteenth-Century Philosophers; Timeline of Philosophers; Introduction; I; II; III; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 1 Transcendental Idealism: Kant; Introduction; The Copernican Turn; The Critical Apparatus; A Priori/A Posteriori; Concept and Intuition; Cognition and Thought; Receptive/Spontaneous; Analytic/Synthetic; Appearances/Things in Themselves; Transcendental Strategies; Transcendental Realism and Illusion; Freedom and Morality; The Limits of Transcendental Idealism; Notes; Bibliography…”
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A two-dimensionalist guide to conceptual analysis by Kipper, Jens

Table of Contents: “…; 1.2 From Frege to Kripke and Putnam; 2 Two-dimensionalism and the necessary a posteriori; 2.1 Two-dimensionalism; 2.1.1 Primary and secondary intensions; 2.1.2 Metaphysical plenitude and two-fold world dependence; 2.1.3 Scrutability and canonical descriptions; 2.1.4 Two-dimensionalism and Jackson's descriptivism; 2.1.5 Two notions of apriority; 2.2 Modal illusions according to Kripke and according to twodimensionalism; 2.2.1 Kripke's two models of modal error.…”
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Iterative methods for ill-posed problems : an introduction by Bakushinskiĭ, A. B. (Anatoliĭ Borisovich)

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Dictionary of world philosophy by Iannone, A. Pablo

Table of Contents: “…a -- a fortiori -- abazimu -- Abdera, School of -- abduction -- ā̄bhā̄sa-vā̄da -- abhā̄va -- Abhidarmakosha -- abhidharma -- abhihitā̄nvaya-vā̄da -- abhinava-anyathā̄-khyā̄ti -- abhinivesha -- abortion -- absolute -- abstract -- Academy -- accident -- accidentalism -- acosmism -- act -- action -- actionism -- activism -- actual -- actualism -- ad -- adequate -- adhyā̄sa -- ā̄dhyā̄tmā̄ -- Advaita -- aesthetics -- affectio -- affirmative -- African philosophy -- Afrocentricity -- ā̄gama -- age of the world -- agent -- Agikuyu -- agnosticism -- Agriculture School -- ahamkā̄ra -- a priori-a posteriori -- ahimsā̄ -- ā̄kā̄sa -- Akhbā̄nīs -- akrasia -- ā̄laya-vijñā̄na Vijñā̄na -- alchemy -- alethiology -- lexandrian School -- Allā̄h -- ambiguity -- analogy -- analysis -- analytic-synthetic distinction -- anattā̄ -- animism -- anthropocentrism -- anthropology -- anthropomorphism -- antinomy -- anumā̄na -- applied -- Arabic philosophy -- archetype -- argument -- Arianism -- Aristotelianism -- Arminianism -- Arrow's theorem -- ars -- artificial -- asceticism -- associationism -- ā̄tman -- atomism -- attention -- attribution theory -- avidyā̄ -- axiomatic method -- Bantu -- Barcelona School -- baskets of knowledge -- behaviorism -- Bergsonianism -- bidʻah -- bilā̄ kayfā̄ -- biology -- black box -- body -- Bologna School -- Brahman -- brotherhood -- Buddhism -- cabala -- calculus -- calemes -- Cambridge School -- canon -- capitalism -- Cartesianism -- cā̄rvā̄ka -- caste -- categorical -- categoricity -- category -- causal law -- certainty -- chain of being -- change -- chih -- Chinese Legalism -- Chinese philosophy -- ch'ing -- Christianity -- circumstance -- class -- cognitive -- co-implication -- collective -- completeness -- complexum significabile -- comprehension -- computer theory -- conceptualism -- condition -- Confucianism -- conscience -- consensus -- Continental philosophy -- continuum -- contractarianism -- creation -- critical -- cultural -- culture -- cybernetics -- darii -- darshana -- de -- death -- decidability -- decision -- deconstruction -- Dedication -- deduction -- definition -- degree -- deism -- demon -- description -- determinism -- Deus -- development -- dharma -- dhyā̄na -- dialectic -- diaspora -- dignity -- dilemma -- discourse -- disposition -- docta ignorantia -- dogma -- doxographers -- dravya -- drishti -- dualism -- dvaita -- ecology -- economic value -- ego -- egocentric -- element -- empathy -- empiricism -- enlightenment -- ens -- enthusiasm -- Epicureanism -- euthanasia -- existentialism -- explanation -- faith -- fallacy -- feminist philosophy -- Frankfurt School -- gender -- God -- Greek philosophy -- hermeneutics -- Hinduism -- historicism -- holism -- human nature -- humanism -- idea -- idealism -- identity -- illumination -- imagination -- in -- induction -- infinity -- intention -- intuition -- Islam -- Jainism -- Japanese philosophy -- Jewish philosophy -- Judaism -- judgment -- justification -- Kantian philosophy -- knowledge -- Korean philosophy -- Latin American philosophy -- logic -- logical -- love -- madrasah -- Madrid School -- Mā̄ori philosophy -- Marxism -- meaning -- measurement -- mechanicism -- mechanics -- memory -- metaphysics -- model -- mysticism -- myth -- Nahua philosophy -- Native American philosophy -- natural kinds -- naturalism -- Neoplatonism -- nominalism -- Nyā̄ya-Vaiśeika School -- object -- occasionalism -- opacity -- operationalism -- ordering -- Oxford philosophy -- paradox -- Paris School -- passion -- perception -- perfection -- phenomenology -- philosophy -- philosophy and expatriation -- philosophy of economics -- philosophy of education -- philosophy of history -- philosophy of language -- philosophy of law -- philosophy of liberation -- philosophy of literature -- philosophy of mathematics -- philosophy of mind -- philosophy of religion -- philosophy of science -- philosophy, sociopolitical -- Platonism -- play -- political theory -- positivism -- pragmatism -- probability -- process philosophy -- psychoanalysis -- Pythagoreanism -- quality -- rationalism -- rationality -- reasoning -- reductionism -- reference -- relation -- rhetoric -- Sā̄mkhya-Yoga -- Scholasticism -- set -- skepticism -- Socratic philosophy -- speech act theory -- spiritualism -- supervenience -- syllogism -- syncategoremata -- tacit knowledge -- Taoism -- theory -- theory of types -- theurgy -- Thomism -- transcendent -- truth -- understanding -- use-mention distinction -- utilitarianism -- value -- virtue -- vitalism -- voluntarism -- war -- wisdom -- Yahweh -- Zen -- Zoroastrianism.…”
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Hermeneutics and the church : in dialogue with Augustine by Andrews, James A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Augustine's De doctrina christiana: History and Context -- De doctrina christiana: Eclecticism in Action -- Theological Hermeneutics: A priori or a posteriori? -- Community, Hermeneutics, Rhetoric -- De doctrina christiana and the Theological Interpretation of Scripture -- Conclusion.…”
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Encyclopedia of empiricism

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Reason & religious belief : an introduction to the philosophy of religion / Reason and religious belief

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Knowledge and reality : selected essays by McGinn, Colin, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…The concept of knowledge ; A priori and a posteriori knowledge ; A note on the essence of natural kinds ; On the necessity of origin ; Modal reality -- Thought and world. …”
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Nonlinear Multiobjective Optimization by Miettinen, Kaisa

Table of Contents: “…No-Preference Methods -- 3. A Posteriori Methods -- 4. A Priori Methods -- 5. …”
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Proof and knowledge in mathematics

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Multiscale problems : theory, numerical approximation and applications

Table of Contents: “…Asymptotic behavior of nonlinear elastic rods / Georges Griso -- Junction of a periodic family of rods with a plate in elasticity / Dominique Blanchard -- Multi-scale modelling of new composites: theory and numerical simulation / Bernadette Miara -- A priori and a posteriori error analysis for numerical homogenization: a unified framework / Assyr Abdulle.…”
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Contemporary Second Language Assessment : Contemporary Applied Linguistics Volume 4. by Wei, Li

Table of Contents: “…Summary of Panelists' Comments on the GESE According to the Validation Model; 3 A New National Exam: A Case of Washback; Introduction; Study; Results; Summary and Discussion; Conclusion; References; Appendix 1: Questionnaire; 4 Linking to the CEFR: Validation Using a Priori and a Posteriori Evidence; Research Background; A Priori Validation; A Posteriori Validation.…”
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Regularization methods in Banach spaces

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The social science jargon buster : the key terms you need to know by O'Leary, Zina

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Action research -- Aesthetics -- Agency -- Alienation -- Anomie -- A posteriori/a priori -- Authority -- Behaviourism -- (The) body -- Bureaucracy -- Capital -- Capitalism -- Causation -- Chaos theory -- Class -- Cognitive dissonance -- Collective -- Colonization -- Commidification -- Communism -- Community -- Conflict theory -- Conservatism -- Critical/radical -- Cultural studies -- Culture -- Deconstruction -- Deductive/inductive reasoning -- Democracy -- Determinism -- Develop/developing countries -- Deviant behaviour -- Dialectic -- Dichotomy -- Discourse -- Egalitarianism -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Essentialism -- Ethics -- Ethnocentrism -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Existentialism -- Fascism -- Feminism -- Functionalism -- Fundamentalism -- Game theory -- Genealogy -- Globalization -- Governance -- Grounded theory -- Hegemony -- Hermeneutics -- Historical materialism -- Historicism -- Human/social ecology -- Humanism -- Hybridity -- Hypothesis/hypotetico-deductive method -- 505 00 Id/ego/superego -- Idealism -- Identity -- Ideology -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Industrialization -- Instrumentalism -- Justice -- Knowledge -- Labelling theory -- Labour -- Leadership -- Liberalism -- Marginalization -- Marxism -- Materialism -- McDonaldization -- Metanarratives -- Methodology -- Methods -- Micro/macroeconomics -- Modernism/postmoderism -- Modernity -- Multiculturalism -- Nationalism -- Nominalism -- Norms -- Ontology -- Other -- Paradigm -- Patriarchy -- Pedagogy/critical pedagogy -- Personality -- Phenomenology -- Pluralism -- Positivism -- Postmodernity -- Post-industrial -- Post-positivism -- Power -- Pragmatism -- Praxis -- Prejudice/discrimination -- Protestant ethic -- Qualitative/quantitative -- Rationalism -- Realism -- Reductionism -- Reflexivity -- Reification -- Relativism -- Research credibility (positivist) -- Research credibility (post-positivist).…”
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The social science jargon buster : the key terms you need to know by O'Leary, Zina

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Action research -- Aesthetics -- Agency -- Alienation -- Anomie -- A posteriori/a priori -- Authority -- Behaviourism -- (The) body -- Bureaucracy -- Capital -- Capitalism -- Causation -- Chaos theory -- Class -- Cognitive dissonance -- Collective -- Colonization -- Commidification -- Communism -- Community -- Conflict theory -- Conservatism -- Critical/radical -- Cultural studies -- Culture -- Deconstruction -- Deductive/inductive reasoning -- Democracy -- Determinism -- Develop/developing countries -- Deviant behaviour -- Dialectic -- Dichotomy -- Discourse -- Egalitarianism -- Empiricism -- Epistemology -- Essentialism -- Ethics -- Ethnocentrism -- Ethnography -- Ethnomethodology -- Existentialism -- Fascism -- Feminism -- Functionalism -- Fundamentalism -- Game theory -- Genealogy -- Globalization -- Governance -- Grounded theory -- Hegemony -- Hermeneutics -- Historical materialism -- Historicism -- Human/social ecology -- Humanism -- Hybridity -- Hypothesis/hypotetico-deductive method -- 505 00 Id/ego/superego -- Idealism -- Identity -- Ideology -- Imperialism -- Individualism -- Industrialization -- Instrumentalism -- Justice -- Knowledge -- Labelling theory -- Labour -- Leadership -- Liberalism -- Marginalization -- Marxism -- Materialism -- McDonaldization -- Metanarratives -- Methodology -- Methods -- Micro/macroeconomics -- Modernism/postmoderism -- Modernity -- Multiculturalism -- Nationalism -- Nominalism -- Norms -- Ontology -- Other -- Paradigm -- Patriarchy -- Pedagogy/critical pedagogy -- Personality -- Phenomenology -- Pluralism -- Positivism -- Postmodernity -- Post-industrial -- Post-positivism -- Power -- Pragmatism -- Praxis -- Prejudice/discrimination -- Protestant ethic -- Qualitative/quantitative -- Rationalism -- Realism -- Reductionism -- Reflexivity -- Reification -- Relativism -- Research credibility (positivist) -- Research credibility (post-positivist).…”
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Fleurs latines des dames et des gens du monde : Clef des citations latines que l'on rencontre fréquemment dans les ouvrages des écrivains français. by Larousse, Pierre

Table of Contents: “…; Anguis in herba; Animus meminisse horret; Annibal ad portas; À parte; Aperietur vobis; À posteriori; À priori; À priori, a posteriori; À quia; Arcades ambo; Argumentum ad crumenam; Argumentum baculinum; Ars longa, vita brevis; Asinus asinum fricat; Asinus in tegulis; Audaces fortuna juvat; Audax japeti genus.…”
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The Palgrave handbook of philosophical methods

Table of Contents: “…A priori analysis and the methodological a posteriori / David Braddon-Mitchell -- The failure of analysis and the nature of concepts / Michael Huemer -- Singular ontology: how to / Alexis G. …”
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Against the current : selected philosophical papers by Rosado Haddock, Guillermo E., 1945-

Table of Contents: “…On the Interpretation of the Young Carnap's Philosophy; Chapter 10. Necessity a posteriori and Contingency a priori in Kripke: some Critical Remarks; (II) Second Part: Some Heterodox Analytic Philosophy; Chapter 11. …”
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The critique of pure reason by Kant, Immanuel

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Fabriquer le savoir enseigné : Guide pédagogique. by Philippe, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…2 Fabriquer l'" intérêt " dans l'enseignement obligatoire! (2)3 Évaluer a posteriori et non prescrire a priori; Bibliographie; Index; Table des matières.…”
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Copernicus in the cultural debates of the Renaissance : reception, legacy, transformation by Omodeo, Pietro Daniel

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Islamic Law, Epistemology and Modernity : Legal Philosophy in Contemporary Iran.

Table of Contents: “…Epistemological ambiguities: A priori and a posteriori; G. Epistemic relativism or epistemological relativism; H. …”
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Western Philosophies Religion. by Pomerlaeau

Table of Contents: “…The Argument from General ConsensusThe Argument from Design; The A Priori Argument; Miracles, Evil, and Religion; Miracles; The Problem of Evil; Religion; Notes; 6. …”
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Optimization in polymer processing

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Quantum Probability and Related Topics : Proceedings of the 32nd Conference. by Accardi, Luigi

Table of Contents: “…No direct or indirect interaction; 3.1. The a posteriori concurrence; 3.2. Only local detection operators; 3.2.1. …”
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La gestation pour autrui. by Schamps, GeneviÃv̈e

Table of Contents: “…; A. -- L'adoption, une rupture vectrice d'insécurité; B. -- Parentalité simple, pourtant ... ; C. -- A posteriori versus a priori; D. -- Une mise en adoption ... au regard des enfants de la gestatrice; III. -- Un encadrement dans quel sens?…”
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Droit de la Famille 6e Edition Ebook Pdf by Hilt, Patrice

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Regularization theory for ill-posed problems : selected topics by Lu, Shuai, Pereverzev, Sergei V.

Table of Contents: “…The balancing principle; 1.1.1 Finite-difference formulae; 1.1.2 Finite-difference formulae for nonexact data. A priori choice of the stepsize; 1.1.3 A posteriori choice of the stepsize; 1.1.4 Numerical illustration; 1.1.5 The balancing principle in a general framework; 1.2 Stable summation of orthogonal series with noisy coefficients. …”
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Experimentación agraria. by Fernández Escobar, Ricardo

Table of Contents: “…Escalas pretransformadasOtras transformaciones; Datos periféricos o raros (outliers); REALIZACIÓN DEL ANÁLISIS DE VARIANZA; Cálculo con el programa Statistix (SX); 5 SEPARACIÓN DE MEDIDAS Y CONTRASTES; COMPARACIONES A PRIORI; Contrastes ortogonales; Contrates polinómicos; Comparaciones con un control; Comparaciones con el mejor; COMPARACIONES A POSTERIORI; Método de la Mínima Diferencia Significativa (MDS o LSD); Método de Tukey; Procedimientos de Bonferroni y de Sidak; Procedimiento de Scheffé; Otros métodos de comparación múltiple; 6 DISEÑO COMPLETAMENTE ALEATORIO; EL MODELO LINEAL ADITIVO.…”
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Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868 : Oxford Essays and Notes 1863-1868. by Higgins, Lesley

Table of Contents: “…VI. 1 Is the difference between a priori and a posteriori truth one of degree only or of kind?…”
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Essentials of Cross-Battery Assessment. by Flanagan, Dawn P.

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Statistical methods of geophysical data processing by Troi︠a︡n, V. N. (Vladimir Nikolaevich)

Table of Contents: “…Model with random parameters. 3.8. A priori information -- 4. The functional relationships of sounding signal fields and parameters of the medium. 4.1. …”
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Empirical nursing : the art of evidence-based care by Garrett, Bernie

Table of Contents: “…The Age of EnlightenmentMathematical Probability; Rationalism; A Priori and a Posteriori Knowledge; The Rise of Empiricism; The Hypothetico-deductive Method; Inductive Reasoning; The Problem of Induction; Deductive Reasoning; Abductive Reasoning; Summary; Key Points for Further Discussion; References; Chapter 3 Modern Science and Nursing; Romanticism; Positivism; Logical Positivism; Pragmatism; Classical Pragmatism; Neo-pragmatism; Post-positivism and Karl Popper's Critical Rationalism; Falsifiability; Popper's Critical Rationalism; Popper's Scientific Legacy.…”
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Resonance and Aspect Matched Adaptive Radar (Ramar) by Barrett, T. W. (Terence William), 1939-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction. 1. A priori and a posteriori information captures. 2. …”
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Aeroelastic vibrations and stability of plates and shells. by Algazin, Sergeĭ D., 1949-

Table of Contents: “…20.3 Numerical Experiments21 Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a biharmonic operator on an arbitrary domain; 21.1 Eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of a biharmonic operator; 21.1.1 Boundary-value problem of the first kind; 21.1.2 Boundary-value problem of the second kind; 21.1.3 Description of the program BIG12AG; 21.2 Program for conformal mapping; 21.3 Numerical experiments; 22 Error estimates for eigenvalue problems; 22.1 Localization theorems; 22.2 A priori error estimate in eigenvalue problems; 22.3 A posteriori error estimate for eigenvalue problems; 22.4 Generalization for operator pencil.…”
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