posteriori

Synonyms

synthetic empirical inductive experiential empiric synthetical hindsight parkinsonism confirmable retrospective falsifiable retrofitting factum semiempirical

Examples

A priori knowledge is often contrasted with posteriori knowledge, which is knowledge gained by experience. Source: Internet

A few types of methods might work for finding optimal parameters from a likelihood function, including maximum likelihood (ML), maximum a posteriori (MAP), expectation-maximization (EM), and variational Bayes (VB). Source: Internet

By Hume's fork, truths by relations among ideas (abstract) all align on one side (analytic, necessary, a priori), whereas truths by states of actualities (concrete) always align on the other side (synthetic, contingent, a posteriori). Source: Internet

If you believe in option B, then you are posteriori justified to believe it because you have seen many crows therefore knowing they are black. Source: Internet

For this purpose, he at once did away with the essential and most meritorious part of the Kantian doctrine, the distinction between a priori and a posteriori and thus that between the phenomenon and the thing-in-itself. Source: Internet

Hansen and Yu (2001), page 747. In minimizing description length (or descriptive complexity), MDL estimation is similar to maximum likelihood estimation and maximum a posteriori estimation (using maximum-entropy Bayesian priors ). Source: Internet