Priorként

Priorként is a Hungarian adverb that denotes that something is treated or justified as a priori, i.e., independent of empirical observation. In epistemology and related fields, a priori knowledge or reasoning is said to be derived from reason alone, rather than from experience. The term is often contrasted with a posteriori knowledge, which depends on sensory evidence or empirical data.

Etymology and linguistic usage: priorként comes from the Latin term a priori, meaning "from the former" or "from what is prior." In Hungarian scholarly and academic language it is used to describe claims, assumptions, or methods regarded as justified prior to or apart from experience.

Contexts and examples: In philosophy, the distinction between a priori and a posteriori knowledge has been central to debates about the sources of justification. Works discussing synthetic a priori knowledge (as discussed by Immanuel Kant) explore how some statements can be informative about the world while still not derived from experience alone. In logic, mathematics, and related disciplines, many results are treated as a priori in the sense that their justification relies on reasoning and axioms rather than observation. In statistics and data analysis, the term appears in the sense of prior information or prior distributions, where priorként specified beliefs influence the analysis before observing data, and are updated by evidence through Bayes’ rule.

See also: a priori, a posteriori, Bayesian statistics, epistemology, Kant.