“You’re running kind of an a priori investigation, I understand?” Støp said, flopping into the smallest item of furniture, a single molded plastic chair. “I beg your pardon?” Harry said, sitting on the sofa. “You’re starting with the solution and working backward to find out how it happened.” “Is that what ‘a priori’ means?” “God knows—I just like the sound of Latin.”
a priori
