a priori argument

This is sometimes referred to as an "a priori argument".

The former is not a purely a priori argument, and it was not presented as such.

It is not to be derived from an allegedly logical a priori argument that all legal questions are 'given.'

But this makes it all the more unreasonable to suppose that any a priori argument could show that one strategy will always be the right one.

There were strong a priori arguments for this view, based on the industry's low achieved rate of return compared with potentially more profitable projects in the private sector.

Galen Strawson wrote that an a priori argument is one in which "you can see that it is true just lying on your couch.

The trademark argument is an a priori argument for the existence of God developed by French philosopher and mathematician, René Descartes.

Indeed, theoretical a priori arguments suggest that a cosmological constant tuned to produce a flat universe today is as unnatural on fundamental grounds as a flat universe now seems natural.

Under Leach's model, in systems where this form of marriage segregates descent groups into wife-givers and wife-takers, the social status of the two categories also cannot be determined by a priori arguments.

In section II, I will review the a priori arguments favouring co-operative R&D ventures, identifying three types of externalities which affect the production and timing of R&D.

Demea objects to the abandonment of the a priori arguments by Philo and Cleanthes (both of whom are empiricists) and perceives Philo to be "accepting an extreme form of skepticism."

Denying the existence of a deity, and refusing to admit as evidence all a priori arguments, d'Holbach saw the universe as nothing more than matter in motion, bound by inexorable natural laws of cause and effect.

Whilst evidence of the transmission of an acquired character proved wanting, the a priori arguments in its favour were recognized as flawed, and cases that appeared to favour the Lamarckian assumption were found to be better explained by the Darwinian principle.

Secondly, he suggests, an a priori argument may also be advanced: 'What makes a society of any sort is a community of ideas, not only political ideas, but ideas about the way its members should behave and govern their lives; these latter ideas are its morals.'