Hello friends welcome to series of Legal Maxims.
Introduction:
A legal maxim is an established principle or proposition of law. Legal maxims are generally in Latin language and are written in italics in a legal document.
A posterior
Literal Translation:from later.
Definition and use: An argument derived from subsequent event.
Explanation:
It is a philosophical term. This term is used for with respect to reasoning to distinguish "necessary conclusions from first premises"; from "conclusions based on sense observation" which must follow it.
A posteriori justification or knowledge depends on experience or empirical evidence, as with most aspects of science and personal knowledge.
A posterioridescribes a method of reasoning from given, express observations or experiments to reach and formulate general principles from them. This is also called inductive reasoning.
It can also be defined as “from particular instances to a general principle or law; based upon actual observation or upon experimental data”: e.g. an a posteriori argument that derives the theory from the evidence.
A posterioriknowledge is knowledge that we can have only after we have certain experiences. We have to observe to get such knowledge. Some examples are: "There is a mug on this desk", "Smoking causes cancer."
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