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	Quenya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		a posteriori language with elements of Finnish, Latin and Greek.
		It was the language developed by those non-Telerin Elves who reached Valinor (the "High Elves") from an earlier language called Common Eldarin.
		The language was also adopted by the Valar, who made some new introductions into it from their own original language, though these are more numerous in the Vanyarin dialect than the Ñoldorin one.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quenya (1482 words)

	A Priori and A Posteriori [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The a priori/a posteriori distinction is epistemological and should not be confused with the metaphysical distinction between the necessary and the contingent or the semantical or logical distinction between the analytic and the synthetic.
		Two aspects of the a priori/a posteriori distinction require clarification: the conception of experience on which the distinction turns; and the sense in which a priori knowledge is independent of such experience.
		Correspondingly, an a posteriori proposition is knowable a posteriori, while an a posteriori argument is one the premises of which are a posteriori propositions.
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/apriori.htm (5580 words)

	Sweet on IALs
		The greatest difficulty of a language is the vocabulary; and the foundation of the vocabulary of all languages is practically arbitrary; there is no connexion between sound and meaning except in a few isolated words.
		Volapuk is mainly an adapted (borrowed) or a-posteriori language, as opposed to an original or a-priori one, although it belongs partly to the latter class as well.
		All a-posteriori systems are liable to various defects, the inevitable result of the conflict between their old and new elements, and the difficulties and embarrassments of an arbitrary selection.
	www.acadon.com /sx4s6s8s2-Sweet.htm (2485 words)

	Re: Adjuvanto (Louis de Beaufront) 1890 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Volapük is mainly an adapted (borrowed) or a-posteriori language, as opposed to an original or a-priori one, although it belongs partly to the latter class as well.
		The grammar of the new language must not be a mere imitation of that of Latin or an ordinary modern European language:
		But whatever language may be adopted, it must be imposed by a competent tribunal, which, as in all analogous cases, will refuse to consider any scheme which has not been worked out by experts—that is, by scientific linguists.
	www.bowks.net /worldlang/aux/d_UnivLang1911.html (2200 words)

	A Historical Outline of Modern Religious Criticism in Western Civilization
		Thus it is only à posteriori or by trying to disentangle the soul from the organs of the body, so to speak, that one can reach the highest probability concerning man's own nature, even though one can not discover with certainty what his nature is.
		In those days, he did not consider himself king over the other animals, nor was he distinguished from the ape, and from the rest, except as the ape itself differs from the other animals, i.e., by a more intelligent face.
		Words, languages, laws, sciences, and the fine arts have come, and by them finally the rough diamond of our mind has been polished.
	www.rationalrevolution.net /articles/religious_criticism.htm (17162 words)

	Torah Codes
		Their a priori antagonism to the idea of a divinely-place code in the Torah provokes an a posteriori criticism designed to justify that antagonism.
		The central message in MBBK's paper is the accusation that WRR cheated by "cooking" their data (actually, they wrap this accusation in softer language).
		The researchers changed the set of variations time after time, and made a posteriori changes in their presentation of the results; each new presentation (even of the same variations) was advantageous to MBBK's goal.
	www.torahcodes.co.il (4962 words)

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