historical a priori

is a concept-dependent and activity-dependent real historical construct.

Objects are real, historical constructs like the objects of Bhaskar's realism, they are conceptand activity-dependent what Foucault calls the 'historical a priori' (Foucault 1980a:236).

is the order underlying any given culture at any given period of history.

the order underlying any given culture at any given period of history. Foucault also uses the phrase the 'positive unconscious of knowledge' to refer to the same idea. The episteme which describes scientific forms of knowledge is a subset of this.

historical a priori, n.All

historical a priori