a priori

A priori It is a Latin phrase that means "From the above". The expression is used to demonstrate something that goes from cause to effect. It also refers to what is done previously to reflect on the matter in question.

An example that we can use to fully understand the Latin phrase that concerns us now could be the following: “Despite what the media had disclosed about the detainees, the judge was clear that he could not and should not judge the case a priori ”.

Regarding this meaning, it must be made clear that whenever this term is spoken of, its antonym inevitably comes to mind: a posteriori. A sentence that can help us to compare and see the difference between the two phrases would be this: "The best and fairest thing is to analyze and study the case in question and thus draw all the conclusions a posteriori."

It is possible to make a distinction between a priori knowledge (which, according to the philosopher Immanuel Kant, is necessarily universal and true because it has no dependence on experience) and the a posteriori knowledge (the one that is developed by the empirical way).

A priori propositions, therefore, are necessary. Direct proofs in mathematics, for example, belong to this type of utterance. In this way, a priori knowledge allows anticipate a fact or some of its properties or characteristics.

For scholastic philosophy, a priori propositions appear linked to the ontology and they are equivalent to that which precedes according to the causal organization.

In order to Kant, everything empirical knowledge is tied to a priori conditions, which he calls as momentous. As it cannot be empirically verified, the reason is the basis of this type of knowledge.

Rene Descartes, for his part, pointed out that reason has independence from experience. This implies that there is knowledge that is innate (that is, a priori), as he explained with his famous phrase "Cogito ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am").

The synthetic a priori judgments, finally, are those related to the logic (What "Climb up"). Instead, a posteriori trials are empirical and are only valid for particular cases, since they are checked with the experience ("The women of Buenos Aires speak more than the men").

In addition to all the aforementioned, we can establish, in the same way, that the term in question is used as the name of a theatrical management company that began its journey at the end of the 90s under the orders of Joseba García, a member of the Compañía Fuegos Fatuos, and Julio Perugorría, a professional from the theatrical world with extensive experience in it.

The children's show “Cáscaras” (2010) by Jorge Padín, Tirso de Molina's adaptation of “La jealous de ella” (2009) by Juanma Navas, “Casi Romeo y Julieta” (2007) by Marta Torres or “La Dama Duende ”(2005) also by Marta Torres are some of the theatrical productions that this company A Priori has developed throughout its professional career.