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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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Sentences with PRIORI (5)
Then,--a priori,--we may judge of the justice of any thing by its possibility; so that if the thing were absolutely impossible, it would be absolutely unjust.
There may seem, _a priori_, no comparison between the change from ‘sour toddy’ to bad gin, and that from the island kilt to a pair of European trousers.
But who, in the present state of theological opinion on that point, will dare maintain that hell fire or its equivalent in some shape is rendered certain by pure logic? Theology herself has largely based this doctrine upon revelation; and, in discussing it, has tended more and more to substitute conventional ideas of criminal law for a priori principles of reason.
There is no theory, no a priori rule, by which the respective attractiveness of industries is determined.
Certain speculative men have adventured to reason upon the source of all the system and the wonders that we behold, a priori, and, having found that the creator is all powerful, all wise, and of infinite goodness, according to their ideas of power, wisdom and goodness, have from thence proceeded to draw their inferences, and to shew us in what manner the works of his hands are arranged and conducted by him.
Quotes with PRIORI (3)
No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically, and has to fall back on the ‘subject’ — that is to say, something *substantial*? The “I” is not just an ‘I think’, but an ‘I think something’. And does not Kant himself keep on stressing that the “I” remains related to its representations, and would be nothing without them? For Kant, however, these representations are the ‘empirical’, which i…
Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the essence of knowledge, an 'ideal subject' has generally been posited. The motive for this, whether explicit or tacit, lies in the requirement that philosophy should have the '*a priori*' as its theme, rather than 'empirical facts' as such. There is some justification for this requirement, though it still needs to be grounded ontologically. Yet is this requirement…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 31 times in crossword archives (1968–2023).