Word: posteriori
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...despite this a posteriori testimonial of what youthful fervor can do, it is doubtful that a move to organize rallies for the varsity football team would meet with unbounded enthusiasm. Among the upperclassmen at Harvard there has for years existed an aversion toward those organized orgies which from a prelude to major athletic events in many an American institution of learning. The bonfire, the snake dance, and the night shirt parade are no doubt wholesome fun, but they are burdens which the scholastic atmosphere of Cambridge has long been spared. A terse crystallization of the local attitude toward such childish...
...this noble juridical principle must be applied to the prevention of armed conflicts between those who are upholding partial or contrary interests and not, certainly, to cover a posteriori acts of violence that society and international law jointly condemn today...
Only a few days ago, Trotzky was a sick man, but almost overnight he became hale and hearty. The significance of his "recovery" lies deep and is best explained a posteriori...
...argument he reasons a posteriori, from a priori grounds, to put it paradoxically; for it is usually considered the first duty of an inductive reasoner to collect data, but this investigator shows a truly Spinozan disregard for mere facts. In order, therefore, to disentangle his argument from the maze of rhetorical rhapsody in which, like the fabled cuttle-fish of the deep, he shrouds his thought, an analysis is necessary. We find, then...
Reasons, a priori; or proof, a posteriori...