Learn a Little Latin: Ergo

Ergo

• hence, therefore

How to say it? The trusty OED will tell us how…

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Learn a little Latin: A Posteriori

A Posteriori

• reasoning or arguing from effects to causes, from experience and not from axioms; empirical, inductive.
• From behind, on the back, on the buttocks.

If you come across this written word, it generally means reasoning from effects to causes. But if you ever feel like using it, it will be when someone is talking out of their ass.

If you want to know how to pronounce this little bit of Latin, this is what the OED suggests.

Learn a little Latin: A Priori

A Priori

• Based on hypothesis rather than experiment.
• Self-evident, intuitively obvious
• Presumed without analysis 
• reasoning or arguing from causes to effects, from abstract notions to their conditions or consequences, from propositions or assumed axioms (and not from experience); deductive; deductively.

Do you watch Law & Order? If you do, you've probably heard the legal people use this term. It's pronounced like this, according to my old friend the OED.

I'm not a philosopher, but there's plenty of other people who are…