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Steve Salerno, author of the book SHAM: How The Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless, wrote in his review of The Secret on Amazon: One seldom encounters a better/worse example of the logical fallacy known as a posteriori reasoning.

Boing Boing 2007

The method a posteriori is a method of direct experience.

Philosophy of Economics Hausman, Daniel M. 2008

It has often been pointed out that “Water is H2O” is a necessary truth, but it can only be justified empirically, that is, a posteriori.

A Priori Justification and Knowledge Russell, Bruce 2007

This classification of propositions, founded only on the structural properties of ideas, is the logical counterpart of the Kantian distinction between a priori and a posteriori, which is relative to the origin of the ideas that occur in them and is defined in subjective terms.

Bolzano's Logic Sebestik, Jan 2007

The latter is that in our cognition which is called cognition a posteriori, that is, empirical intuition.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

Opposed to this is empirical knowledge, or that which is possible only a posteriori, that is, through experience.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

In the one case, reason proceeds according to conceptions and can do nothing more than subject phenomena to these -- which can only be determined empirically, that is, a posteriori -- in conformity, however, with those conceptions as the rules of all empirical synthesis.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

a priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience.

The Critique of Pure Reason Immanuel Kant 1764

[105] Empiricism ” that is, a posteriori investigations, based on actual facts and not a priori deductions from theories, or general laws, did good service before Froebel's time, and will do good service yet, Froebel notwithstanding.

Autobiography of Friedrich Froebel Froebel, Friedrich, 1782-1852 1889

This was what it was to exist, to tread carefully through the bog of expectations ex posteriori.

The Moon in Winter Joshua Moses 2011