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...C''. … I call this kind of figure the First. (Aristotle, ''Prior Analytics'', 1.4). ...lies to ''B''; for this is how we effect inductions. (Aristotle, ''Prior Analytics'', 2.23).

...is something which cannot be other than it is.|[[Aristotle]]|''[[Posterior Analytics]]'' (Book 1 Part 2) .... In this case that is knowledge "a priori", meaning before. The knowledge prior to any experience means that there are certain "assumptions" that one takes

...r, Modern Library, 2001, ISBN 0-375-75799-6, see especially, ''[[Posterior Analytics]]''. We will see later that in many definitions of logic, logical inference ...ions, to us by the Arabs; in it the concept of number appears as logically prior to the concepts of geometry."

#"Antecedence postulates that the cause must be prior to, or at least simultaneous with, the effect. In his ''Posterior Analytics'' and ''Metaphysics'', Aristotle wrote, "All causes are beginnings..."

...scientific inquiry, observation includes both unconditioned observations (prior to any theory) as well as the observation of the experiment and its results ...[[Charles Sanders Peirce]], borrowing a page from [[Aristotle]] (''[[Prior Analytics]]'', [[Inquiry#Abduction|2.25]]) described the incipient stages of [[inquir

prior forms to receive the form of human-ness, an individual human is born. When commentaries, on the Posterior Analytics, the Physics, the Metaphysics, On the