a priori

adj.

adv.

1. 从事实推断结果；由因及果
   using facts or principles that are known to be true in order to decide what the probable effects or results of sth will be, for example saying ‘They haven't eaten anything all day so they must be hungry.’

1. ADJ 由因及果的；演绎的；推理的
   An a priori argument, reason, or probability is based on an assumed principle or fact, rather than on actual observed facts.
   1. In the absence of such evidence, there is no a priori hypothesis to work with.
      没有此类证据，就没有可以推理的前提。
   2. A priori is also an adverb.
      
   3. One assumes, a priori, that a parent would be better at dealing with problems.
      人们总是想当然地认为父母更善于处理问题。

1. In the absence of such evidence, there is no a priori hypothesis to work with.
   没有此类证据，就没有可以推理的前提。
2. In other words, the frequencies of those waves should be constant in time and space a priori.
   换句话说，那些波的频率根据推断在时空上是常定的。
3. The client has a priori knowledge of the WSDL and the service it is going to invoke.
   客户机能够推算出关于WSDL和它要调用的服务的信息。
4. Mean-Shift: Algorithm that does not require any a priori knowledge about the number of clusters and can produce arbitrarily shaped clusters.
   Mean-Shift：无需任何关于集群数量的推理知识的算法，它可以生成任意形状的集群。
5. The iteration formula and determination of iteration step are set up according to a priori information of rock and concrete. The iterative process may be continued until some criterion for convergence is met.
   建立了考虑先验信息的修正高斯-牛顿算法的迭代格式和迭代步长的确定方法。这种迭代步骤可继续下去，直到符合某种收敛要求为止。
6. But we have no way of knowing a priori that they are true of the world.
   但是我们无法知道先验是否真实存在。
7. Therefore, reputable and qualified scientists in this field are boycotted a priori.
   因此，正是该领域中有信誉的称职的科学家在阻止一种经验。
8. Optimal Distributed Decision Fusion with Fuzzy a priori Probabilities and Fuzzy Cost Functions Based on Minimum Bayesian Risk Criterion
   先验概率和代价函数均模糊时基于贝叶斯最小风险准则的分布式决策融合
9. So these are a priori the independent variables that we have to work with.
   这是关于变量的先验的判断，我们要关心的。
10. Pragmatism agrees with empiricism in its emphasis on the priority of experience over a priori reasoning.
    经验主义在先验推理上重视经验的优先性，实用主义在这点上是和经验主义一致的。
11. The a priori of empirical social life consists of the fact that life is not entirely social.
    先验的社会经验包含一个事实就是生命并非完全都是社会的。
12. So a priori, this was not necessarily true.
    所以先验的并不一定是正确的。
13. This algorithm requires not much a priori knowledge of the system parameters.
    此算法不要求系统参数更多的先验知识。
14. Compared with the former model-based approaches of fault detection, the present one does not require the a priori knowledge about the true parameters of models.
    与以往基于模型的故障检测方法相比，该方法不要求模型参数真实值的先验信息。
15. There can no longer be an a priori good, since there is no infinite and perfect consciousness to think it.
    既然没有无限而完美的意识去进行思考，所以也不再有什么先天的善了。
16. In a priori theory, competitive markets do not have to be capitalist ones.
    在一个先验理论中，竞争性市场不必是一个资本主义市场。
17. A Priori and a Posteriori Error Estimates for Boundary Control
    一类边界控制问题的先验误差估计和后验误差估计
18. His argument was a priori, but vindicated by events.
    他的论点是先验性的，但得到了事实的论证。
19. A priori analysis method for the modeling complexity of a class of consumption systems
    一类动态消费系统建模复杂性的先验分析方法
20. At any rate that certainly is not knowable a priori.
    不管怎样，那肯定不是一个可知的先验。
21. By a rejection a priori of such hypotheses, the utopian approach violates the principles of scientific method.
    乌托邦的方法先验地拒绝这些假说，违背了科学方法的原则。
22. A priori point-wise estimations are established for bounded functions satisfying a new class of nonlinear inequalities involving improper integrals.
    对满足一类新的含反常积分非线性不等式的有界函数建立了先验逐点估计。
23. Time, Space and A Priori Categories& Some Amendments to Kant's System of A Priori Categories
    时间、空间与先验范畴&对康德先验范畴体系的修正
24. Well-conducted human studies that demonstrate a clear association in a study design that is determined a priori for testing the hypothesis of such association.
    有严格实施的人体研究证实两者有明确联系。在研究设计中检验这种联系的假设，确定其是一种先验（由因到果）的关系。
25. But, meanwhile, in order for there to be an ethics, a society, a civilization, it is essential that certain values be taken seriously and that they be considered as having an a priori existence.
    与此同时，为了伦理学、社会和文明的存在，必须认真对待某些价值，认为它们具有先天的存在。
26. An environment monitoring allows applications to observe its surroundings using rules that have been defined a priori.
    环境监测让应用用预先定义的规则观察他们的周围。
27. According to Kant this again is a principle that we can know to be true a priori of the world.
    康德认为这又可以，看作是世界的一种先验原理。
28. A priori or a posteriori estimates of random and systematic errors
    随机和系统误差的先验和后验估计数
29. Twist Property and the Second Order Differential Equations Without a Priori Bounds
    扭转性质和无先验界的二阶微分方程
30. And we don't know one a priori.
    我们事先并不知道。

adj

1. involving deductive reasoning from a general principle to a necessary effect
   1. an a priori judgment

2. based on hypothesis or theory rather than experiment

adv

1. derived by logic, without observed facts