[f. prec. + -ISM, after mod.F. apriorisme.] Employment of à priori reasoning; concr. an à priori idea, or principle.
1883. in Chicago Advance, 13 Sept. Apriorisms as ultimate grounds of knowledge.
1903. Boston Even. Transcript, 14/2. His own ingenious ‘apriorisms’—pardon my coining a word, it is such a good one, indeed quite worthy of being nationalized by the Academy—have remained in the realm of pure fantasy.
