A priori

concept designating the extra-categorical attributes of beings

two types of knowledge, justification, or argument

standpoint regarding a topic; opinion, attitude, or judgment upon some matter; way that one looks at something

In the philosophy of mind, innatism is the view that the mind is born with already-formed ideas, knowledge, and beliefs. The opposing doctrine, that the mind is a tabula rasa (blank slate) at birth and all knowledge is gained from experience and the senses, is called empiricism.

method of estimating the parameters of a statistical model

moral intellectualism is a view in meta-ethics according to which genuine moral knowledge must take the form of arriving at discursive moral judgements about what one should do

type of probability derived by deductive reasoning, with application in statistical mechanics

In epistemology (theory of knowledge), a self-evident proposition is a proposition that is known to be true by understanding its meaning without proof, and/or by ordinary human reason.