A priori

Kant on the "A priori" Toward an Interpretation

A Priori / a Posteriori

DATA TYPE See DATA ABSTRACTION ABSTRACTION (The result of) a process of simplification, to describe something at a more general level than the level of detail seen from another point of view. This is often achieved by omitting details specific to individual cases or to methods of implementation. For example, a realtor’s description of a house may leave out architectural detail so that it is an ...

Elimination of a priori

Profiles of atmospheric state parameters retrieved from remote measurements often contain a priori information which causes complication in the use of data for validation, comparison with models, or data assimilation. For such applications it often is desirable to remove the a priori information from the data product. If the retrieval involves 5 an ill-posed inversion problem, formal removal of...

Analyzing a priori knowledge

There are four approaches to analyzing the concept of a priori knowledge. The primary target of the reductive approach is the concept of a priori justification. The primary target of the nonreductive approach is the concept of a priori knowledge. There are two approaches to analyzing each primary target. A theory-neutral approach provides an analysis that does not presuppose any general theory ...

A Priori Optimization

Consider a complete graph G = (V,E), in which each node is present with probability pi. We are interested in solving combinatorial optimization problems on subsets of nodes present with a certain probability. We introduce the idea of a priori optimization as a strategy competitive to the strategy of re-optimization, under which the combinatorial optimization problem is solved optimally for ever...