a posteriori

Meanings

1. Involving induction of theories from facts.
2. Of a constructed language, Developed on a basis of languages which already exist.

1. In a manner that deduces theories from facts.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin ā posteriōrī (“involving reasoning from effect to cause, from experience to theory”, literally “from what follows”). Popularized from the 19th century in reference to the work of Immanuel Kant.