"A priori" - meaning and meaning of this word

Many people today are in the habit of usingin the speech a huge number of words of foreign origin. For example, using the word "a priori", the meaning of it is understood by many people. In one of the explanations concerning this word, there is such: "the statement stated before reception of experience". And an example is shown: "A friend is just crazy about racing. Tomorrow is the decisive race. A priori, he will be at the racetrack! "Is it appropriate to use the word in this case? The question is controversial.

After all, as the blogger said above, the word indicatesto the fact that the conclusion is not based on the experience gained. And in this case, we see that the assumption is based precisely on the fact that as a result of the experience (a friend always goes to the races, he has not yet missed a single important race), the comrade draws certain conclusions. Therefore, in this context, "a priori" meaning can only have a hint of humor or mockery. Thus, a person, trying to explain the meaning of the expression, contradicts himself.

Another statement is based on the fact that"A priori" the value has those original knowledge that does not require proof. An example is given of the spherical shape of the Earth. The very definition of the word can be called true, but with an example again, a misfire.

How many centuries people have considered the Earth flat, thiswas indeed a priori for almost everyone. But there was one, named Copernicus, for whom the opinion of all meant nothing. And he proved that the Earth is round. Here you have a priori ...

Or here about parallel lines. Earlier it was possible to say: a priori, that they will not intersect! And today it is unlikely that anyone will argue that the intersection of parallel straight lines is impossible.

The modern world is changing at a tremendous speedprecisely because of those people for whom there is no word "a priori". The value of experience for them is everything. They fry cucumbers and cook garlic ice cream, try to arrange their body in such a way that it fits in a meter cube, climb on steep rocks and descend to the very depths of the oceans.

And another part of the population argues a priori thatit's impossible. Without testing, without doing experiments, simply because many people think so, argues a priori. What this means, we have already found out. But what part of speech can a word be in a sentence?

More often this word makes sense adverbs.It seems to replace the words "in advance", "speculatively", "initially" or expressions that are circumstances, such as "not requiring proof", "without reliance on facts". Less often in Russian, this word appears as a substantivized adverb, that is, an indecent noun of the neuter gender.

A priori knowledge today - it's deepsubjective. If earlier, almost 50 years ago, there were definite dogmas, axioms that did not have to be proved, but should be blindly taken for granted, today all this does not exist. If schoolchildren in the last century were asked: "Are there ghosts?", A large half would a priori answer: "Of course not! And witchcraft is not, and God, and transformations! "And today even scientists are at a loss to give an unambiguous and confident answer to this question. Yes, it's difficult! There are research institutes that study what in the past a priori did not exist and did not therefore require study.

Laughed at the "conspiracy" grandmother-medicine menwater, a priori claiming that all this is a lie. And today scientists froze different kinds of water (and conspired, among others) and made an analysis of their structures. It's amazing! The facts destroyed the a priori statement. Water conspirator has the correct structure of the hexagonal snowflake, the same as the spring has. But the water from the tap structure has broken.

So today it's ridiculous to say anythinga priori. Progress does not believe anyone for a word, it's all "trying on the tooth." He raises dogma, clams the axioms, sets his own rules. But the word "a priori" in the speech of some still left, a beautiful such a foreign word.