Catholic Word of the Day: A POSTERIORI DEMONSTRATION, 03-05-13

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A POSTERIORI DEMONSTRATION

Legitimate reasoning from premises that are better known than the conclusion. Yet the premises are effects posterior (or subsequent) in being or in time to the cause in the conclusion, e.g., demonstrations of the existence of God.

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Thinking about this

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I clicked on this post thinking it was about something else.

Now I feel like an A**.

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Can someone give an example of this kind of reasoning? My eyes kind of glassed over trying to pin it down...

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The essence of God — all we have if after the fact — the posteriori