apriorism

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The idea that some knowledge of the physical world can be derived logically from general principles.

   “The linguistic apriorism of Chomsky has stimulated some psychologists to search for nonlinguistic roots of language development.”

   “What was needed for modern science to take shape was a renunciation of their bookish a priorism, with its Aristotelian notion that all things can be deduced by logical, abstract argument from (ultimately arbitrary) first principles.”