a priori vs apocryphal

a priori

adj
  • Presumed without analysis. 

  • Self-evident, intuitively obvious. 

  • Based on hypothesis and theory rather than experiment or empirical evidence. 

  • Developed entirely from scratch, without deriving it from existing languages. 

adv
  • In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation. 

apocryphal

adj
  • Of doubtful authenticity, or lacking authority; not regarded as canonical. 

  • Of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness; anecdotal or in the nature of an urban legend. 

  • Of, or pertaining to, the Apocrypha. 

How often have the words a priori and apocryphal occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )