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fallacy
fallacy in logic, a term used to characterize an invalid argument. Strictly speaking, it refers only to the transition from a set of premises to a conclusion, and is distinguished from falsity, a value attributed to a single statement. The laws of syllogisms were systematically elaborated by Aristo... Read more
anomie
anomie a social condition characterized by instability, the breakdown of social norms, institutional disorganization, and a divorce between socially valid goals and available means for achieving them. Introduced into sociology by Emile Durkheim in his study Suicide (1897), anomie also refers to... Read more
superstition
superstition an irrational belief or practice resulting from ignorance or fear of the unknown. The validity of superstitions is based on belief in the power of magic and witchcraft and in such invisible forces as spirits and demons. A common superstition in the Middle Ages was that the devil could ... Read more
logic
logic the systematic study of valid inference. A distinction is drawn between logical validity and truth. Validity merely refers to formal properties of the process of inference. Thus, a conclusion whose value is true may be drawn from an invalid argument, and one whose value is false, from a valid... Read more
hadith
hadith , a tradition or the collection of the traditions of Muhammad , the Prophet of Islam, including his sayings and deeds, and his tacit approval of what was said or done in his presence. The term, which literally refers to an individual tradition, is also used as a synonym of sunna, the norma... Read more
probate
probate , in law, the certification by a court that a will is valid. Probate, which is governed by various statutes in the several states of the United States, is required before the will can take effect. The procedure requires that notification of a hearing be given to all persons who may possibl... Read more
Albion Woodbury Small
Albion Woodbury Small 1854-1926, American sociologist, b. Buckfield, Maine, grad. Colby College, 1876, and further educated in Germany. He was made president of Colby in 1889, but left it in 1892 to found at the Univ. of Chicago the first department of sociology in an American university. Small als... Read more
epistemology
epistemology [Gr.,=knowledge or science], the branch of philosophy that is directed toward theories of the sources, nature, and limits of knowledge. Since the 17th cent. epistemology has been one of the fundamental themes of philosophers, who were necessarily obliged to coordinate the theory of kno... Read more
pragmatism
pragmatism , method of philosophy in which the truth of a proposition is measured by its correspondence with experimental results and by its practical outcome. Thought is considered as simply an instrument for supporting the life aims of the human organism and has no real metaphysical significance. ... Read more
divorce
divorce partial or total dissolution of a marriage by the judgment of a court. Partial dissolution is a divorce "from bed and board," a decree of judicial separation , leaving the parties officially married while forbidding cohabitation. Total dissolution of the bonds of a valid marriage is ... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "a priori validity"

pragmatism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...can be reached through deductive reasoning from a priori grounds and insists on the need for inductive investigation...empirical reality. W. V. O. Quine has upheld the validity of some a priori knowledge, pointing out that mathematics greatly...
Evolutionary Epistemology
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion ...critique the Kantian concept of a priori : If cognition is a capacity...individual, ontogenetically a priori. However, the origins of...knowledge, including its a priori component, is provisional...between the discernment of the validity of religious beliefs and the...
Sociology, Knowledge in
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences ...conception, the constitutive components of cognition are a priori. Similarly, empiricists of various persuasions have maintained...influence the genesis of ideas but not the structure or the validity of thought (context of discovery). Otherwise, quite different...
Joseph Butler
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...on human nature and a natural theology that emphasized the validity of Christian beliefs. Joseph Butler was born on May 18, 1692...two flaws in the reasoning of Clarke's recently published a priori demonstrations concerning the proof of the divine omnipresence...

Dictionary entries related to "a priori validity"

Dream Symbolism
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...and folklore, a fact tending to confirm their universal validity. Verbal connections were very common in this context. In...if an initial interpretation may be based on a sort of a-priori table of correspondences, a symbol is always modulated by...
measurement by fiat
Book article from: A Dictionary of Sociology ...rather assign numbers on the basis of arbitrary units, face validity, or intuition. This often happens when sociologists refer to a concept which seems on commonsense or a priori grounds to be important, but which they do not know how to measure...
Marxism and Psychoanalysis
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis MARXISM AND PSYCHOANALYSIS A priori, there seems to be nothing that would provide common ground between...explicitly referred to Marxism. He did not dispute the fundamental validity of the theory, he merely considered it incomplete. If there are...

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Can human rationality be defended a priori?
Magazine article from: Behavior and Philosophy; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...of L. Jonathan Cohen's influential a priori argument that human irrationality cannot...intends it only in the narrow sense of "validity in deductive or probabilistic reasoning...reasoning in the first place. It is an a priori epistemological argument about the limitations...
Validity Study: Relationships Between Personality Measures and Job Performance Ratings Among Far Eastern Couriers
Magazine article from: Applied H.R.M. Research; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...30 facet scales were chosen a priori for validity research. The median facet scale...scores were not available. Validity Information Table 1 presents the...p < .001). While the validity of the selection composite was...
In Search of Reliability and Validity Evidence for an Existing Instrument
Magazine article from: Journal of Nursing Measurement; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...if there is evidence of a priori content validity (Waltz, Strickland, & Lenz, 2005). A priori content validity exists when the developer...provides evidence of its a priori content validity. Construct validity evidence...
Cultural Historicity in The Battle of Maldon.(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: Philological Quarterly; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...Narratives which satisfy traditional expectations thus enjoy a special force in the confidence of their auditors, an a priori validity and significance. As Richard J. Parmentier, another Polynesian ethnographer, writes: While multiple descriptions...
Ecology of Care: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of the Self and Moral Obligation.
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 12/8/1993; ; 700+ words ; ...subset" of religious thinking. Can theologians not be religious thinkers? Fuller claims that theology assumes the a priori validity of a particular religious tradition, while religious thinking is potentially limitless in form or substance. (Later...
Women of London, rejoice
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 12/7/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...s a peculiar attitude he's betraying - the assumption that the categories we apply to nature have some sort of a priori validity, and if nature doesn't fit into them, then it's nature that's blundered. Incidentally, all the literature...
Comparing the validity of structured interviews for managerial-level employees: should we look to the past or focus on the future?
Magazine article from: Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology; 9/1/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...that have investigated the validity of the SI and the PBI in predicting...persist regarding the construct validity of both the SI and the PBI...few studies have examined a priori-specified construct differences...observed criterion-related validity differences. More generally...
Logistics research methods: Employing structural equation modeling to test for construct validity
Magazine article from: Journal of Business Logistics; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...these theories. While testing a priori theory with hypotheses represents...rigor is testing for construct validity and many of its subdimensions...unidimensionality, convergent validity, discriminant validity, and predictive validity...
Existence and uniqueness of solution to a nonlinear dead-oil model resulting from oil engineering.(Report)
Magazine article from: International Journal of Applied Mathematics & Statistics; 3/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; ...variable. Because of the approximate and partially empirical character of the equations used, one cannot affirm a priori the validity and the coherence of the considered system of equations. The mathematical study of this system is able to confirm...
Item generation procedures and background data scales: Implications for construct and criterion-related validity
Magazine article from: Personnel Psychology; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words ; ...their content and construct validity (Katzell, 1994). A variety...limit the content and construct validity of some background data measures...feasibility of formulating a priori or post hoc hypotheses to account...adequate content and construct validity. The intent of the present...