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Noun: apriorism
  1. Belief in a priori principles or reasoning; specifically : the doctrine that knowledge rests upon principles that are self-evident to reason or are presupposed by experience in general.
    "Nevertheless, the apriorism of both neoclassical and Austrian economics is vulnerable to the kind of criticism Dewey used against Kant."

Derived forms: apriorisms

Type of: philosophical doctrine, philosophical theory

Encyclopedia: Apriorism