posteriori
adj. 后验;后面的;其次的
例句
There was no longer any question of discovering a posteriori laws of social change.
之后便不再有有关社会变革的法则出现。
Philosophers call these statements empirical or a posteriori truths, meaning true after experience.
哲学家们把这类知识称为“经验性真理”或“后天真理”,意即它们的正确性是通过实践证明的。
Thus the cosmos cannot be a necessary form of existence; and so it has to be approached by a posteriori investigation.
因此宇宙不是必然如此的,对它的认识也是通过事后的研究才能实现。