A priori
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A priori may refer to:
- A priori (law), based on deduction or hypothesis
- A priori (languages), a type of constructed language
- A priori (statistics), a knowledge of the actual population
- A priori (mathematical modeling)
- A priori and a posteriori (philosophy), used to distinguish two types of propositional knowledge
- A priori (mathematics) - in mathematical literature, one often says proposition A "does not a priori imply" proposition B if any such implication would require some nontrivial reasoning. In particular, the question of whether proposition A implies proposition B a priori is independent of whether proposition A implies proposition B in fact.
- A priory is a house of men or women under religious vows headed by a prior or prioress.