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Why can't I ever remember what a priori means I've searched the definition 10 times

>> No.15854510

>>15854497
Write it down, anon. Unironically. I usually do that when something like that happens to a point of starting bothering me.

>> No.15854547
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15854547

>can't remember how to spell "bureaucracy"
>looked it up like a hundred times
>Have to look it up Everytime I spell it
>Just resort to misspelling it and not giving a fuck

>> No.15854565

How the fuck do I spell recommend aaaaaaaa

>> No.15854599
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15854599

>reccommend
>bueraucracy
>wenseday

>> No.15854614

>>15854599
nigga how can you spell wednesday incorrectly

>> No.15854627

>>15854599
Just remember Wednesday as

>WED
NES
>DAY

>> No.15854630

>>15854497
Yeah i often have the same issue, its really annoying and im not sure why i cant get it into my head.

>> No.15854631

>>15854614
English is a stupid language. Name one other word with a silent d before an n.

>> No.15854636

>>15854497
anal is a priori dirty

>> No.15854637

>>15854497

If you're a brainlet, just accept it and move on.

Be like normie pepe dancing in a club with the backwards baseball cap. Such life is enjoyable requiring little commitment. Stop setting yourself up with expectations that you cannot possibly live up to

>> No.15854640
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15854640

>>15854497
NOOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T JUST WRITE "A PRIORI" WHEN "BEFORE" WILL SUFFICE IT'S PRETENTIOUS WHEN YOU SAY "A PRIORI" AND YOU NEED TO ALWAYS USE SUCCINCT LANGUAGE

>> No.15854644

>>15854631
It’s pronounced wed’n’sday

>> No.15854645

>>15854497
The definition is literally in the word though 'prior'.

>> No.15854646

>>15854599
we do not eat snails day

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>>15854645
Oh shit. Kind of makes sense now.

>> No.15854897

>>15854637
Already tried it and wanted to kms

>> No.15854981

>>15854497
It means you know something independent of experience. It's in the name ('prior' to experience, vs. 'posterior' in a posteriori). That connection is not completely accurate but it's an easy way to remember which is which.

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15855010

>see anons having trouble with daunting philosophical buzzwords like phenomenology, dialectic, or a priori
>remember when they were daunting to me too
>now use them reflexively
>tfw channeling my energy so a new generation of anons can learn these difficult but useful ideas

You're all going to make it friends

>> No.15855139

Bur-
"eau" - ew
"cracy" - crazy
My structuring of the word is literally founded on my contempt for the subject.

I've done this in my head for years.

>> No.15855147

People like Nabokov don’t have problems like this. U mad?

>> No.15855149

>>15854631
It's Woden's day, anon. The D has always been first.

>> No.15855151

>>15854627
Why don't people say it like that it would make more sense

>> No.15855201

>>15854599
Nesecary

>> No.15855206

>>15854640
retard or am I biting bait?

>> No.15855214

>>15854497
Finding the definition for a priori isn't the hardest part, anon. Properly understanding what it means is.

>> No.15855902
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15855902

>>15855010
Same but unironically.
Many anons have to improve with the "their" and "they're" too.

>> No.15856010

>>15854547
eau = o in french

>> No.15856031

>literally has "prior" in it

>> No.15856033

>expect
>except

>> No.15856159

>>15854981
The one post that actually explained the meaning

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15856212

>>15854599
>occurr
>vaccuum
>bourgeouise

>> No.15856236
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15856236

>>15855010
>>15855902
based frens

>> No.15856285

>>15854547
>>15854565
Fuck I thought this only happened to me.

>> No.15856335

>>15855010
Define the "dialectics" then
https://www.revleft.space/vb/threads/190877-Why-A-is-not-A?p=2804013#post2804013

>> No.15856351

>>15854547
Autocorrect is making us all retarded. I constantly forget how to spell words because the computer does it for me these days.

>> No.15856511

>>15854497
Don't just learn the meaning of the word whenever it comes up, learn to use the word. You don't know a word until you can use it.

>> No.15856754
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15856754

>occassion

>> No.15856780

>>15854497
bro literally how the fuck do you not know what a priori means, it's such a basic term!

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>>15854640
>a priori means "before"

>> No.15857097

>>15855902
This. Your right.

>> No.15857099

>>15854547
>>15854565
>>15854599
>>15855139
>>15856212
>>15856754
>people not installing LanguageTool in their browser
kek

>> No.15857106

>>15854547
I'm fine with bureaucracy but it's bourgeoisie that gets me no matter how many fucking times I write it

>> No.15857114

>>15854614
Yeah it's literally the first 'difficult' word you learn to spell

>> No.15857117

The biggest problem I have is where a vowel might be an "a" or an "e", because it's pronounced indeterminate, schwa sound.

e.g. seperate or separate

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15857126

>>15857099
>Installing browser plug-ins other than adblockers.
>having to rely on uncheckable tools for forming orthographically correct sentences

>> No.15857133

>>15857106
bourge- oi -sie
french isn't rocket science

>> No.15857149

>>15857117
wi ʃʊd ɔl ləːn tu rʌJt Jn ʌJ pi eJ

>> No.15857152

>>15854627
i always say it like that in my head as well

>> No.15857160

>>15857149
well 4chins butchered this, the J should be the w/i/th sound.

>> No.15857162

>>15857133
borgiose

>> No.15857172

>>15854637
Cringe hedonist.

>> No.15857178

>>15857149
wɒt dJd ˈhi: miːn ˈbaJ ðJs

>> No.15857181

>ITT brainlets who cant spell

>> No.15857188

>>15857162
bourjoazi

>> No.15857197

>>15854599
Know that Wednesday is derived from Wodan's Day
Fixed.

>> No.15857221

Do britoids really speak like that?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Recording_of_speaker_of_British_English_(Received_Pronunciation).ogg

>> No.15857247

>>15857126
have fun being tracked by virtually every website mr. too-cool-to-care-about-internet-privacy.
also you're gonna look up those words anyway, so what's the difference using a tool that doesn't take up as much time and space?

>> No.15857277

>>15857188
buržoa

>> No.15857320

>>15857277
burgerman

>> No.15857342

>>15857181
Men who couldn't spell are responsible for the develpoment of the human language. How do you think most derivative words and compounds came to exist? Somebody out there couldn't remember how to spell, or the proper term for a thing.

>> No.15857358

>>15854599
>contiuum
>teer
>beleive

>> No.15857369

>>15857247
>no reading comprehension
Am I on /sci/ here? Thought this was /lit/?
No, I learn correct orthography of words by looking up their etymology. It has the advantage that it's also fun and interesting.

You have fun being tracked by plug-in providers. Do you also use a VPN to "protect your privacy"?

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15857373

>hie bothers to spell properly
English teachers just want to scruff out your creativity bro.

>> No.15857423

>>15854497
A Priori is easy - just remember that it's the type of probablity that legitimately justified racism.

>> No.15857435

>>15857423
*meant to say justifies, not justified. A person is still more likely to rob you if he's black.

>> No.15857455

>english language is void of conjugated or declined forms of words
>mutts still manage to fail at correct spelling

>> No.15857497

>>15856010
This.
I only do it when I forget that bureaucracy is obviously spelt the same way as bureau, and who can't spell 'bureau'?

Just understand how fucking languages are built up and improve your ability to intuit the meaning of new words instead of learning some faggoty mnemonic for everything you can't spell.
Mnemonics are cringe.

>> No.15857499

>>15854599
>re
>commend
When have you ever seen the prefix "rec" in English? It doesn't exist. It's re. RE-commend.

>> No.15857526

>>15857106
Omg, that word I have to look up how to spell every single time

>> No.15857550

>>15857106
Best spelling is burgeroise

>> No.15857574
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15857574

>I went to the librairie

>> No.15857590

>>15857574
librarie or librairy?

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15857597

>>15854565
here's how I've come to finally remember it:

you're RE - commending something. just think of "commend" and then there's a reeeeee now I don't type two cs as often anymore

>> No.15857598

>>15857550
>>15857162
those looks painfully cringe to your average frenchman, just so you know

>> No.15857599

>>15857597
recommand

>> No.15857607

>>15857590
Ar' yer daft?

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>>15857574
>bibliothèque

>> No.15857663

>>15857652
That's not engliesh.

>> No.15857681

>>15857369
>it's fun and interesting to look up words
what a cope. stop lying faggot.
>you have fun being tracked by plug-in providers. Do you also use VPN to "protect your privacy"?
there are lots of plug-in providers that don't collect your private data. To almost every proprietary software there is a free alternative. Ofc you would know that if you actually looked into it, but since you're a bugman you don't concern yourself with privacy and corruption. keep sucking google's cock and stop talking about things you obviously know nothing about

>> No.15857693 [DELETED] 

>>15854547
bureau = french for table
cracy = greek for a system of government or some shit

>> No.15857717

renaissance always fucks me up and the Apple spell checker is stupid and never recommends me the right shit, always takes two tries to remember theres only one n, which should be obvious since beginning a word with "re" doesn't double the first consonant

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15857723

>>15857663
But it is

>> No.15857745

>>15857723
nice dictionary what is it called?

>> No.15857754

>>15857745
Oxford English Dictionnary (1888)

>> No.15857781

>>15857663
Actually it's Canaanite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byblos#Name

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>>15857681
>what a cope. stop lying faggot.
*What a cope. Stop lying, faggot!
>there are lots of plug-in providers that don't collect your private data
Pffffrrrrt lololol
>free alternative
>free means someone checked the source code and they don't collect data
>Ofc you would know that if you actually looked into it, but since you're a bugman you don't concern yourself with privacy and corruption
Try to read my original post again, imbecile. I do security assessments for browser plug-ins as a side job. My real job involves producing and rolling out machine learning models. I know exactly what data is capable of.
You're just a massive projecting faggot being angry at something I never said.

>> No.15858263

>>15857133
>oi -sie
Oy you in Finnish, very easy to remember.

>> No.15858332

>teleological
I'm just too stupid for this word desu.

>> No.15858358

>>15854981
>>15856159
But the mind is experience and doesn't necessarily say anything about underlying reality no matter how much you reduce something, because it's still mind. A priori would be more like the building blocks of empiricism/experience than something separate.

>> No.15858365

>>15858332
The why, not just how and what.

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15858388

>>15858332
You don't find these in nature.

>> No.15858450

>>15857723
Do you think I can read?

>> No.15858540

>>15854627
wetness day

>> No.15858797

>>15854497
this is what you get for having a barbarous germanic language as your native tongue

>> No.15858837

>>15856236
based on what?