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.
In a way based on theoretical deduction rather than empirical observation.
Stubbornly holding on to an idea without concern for practicalities or reality.
In France, in 1815-30, one of a school who desired a constitution like that of Britain.
A person who stubbornly holds to a philosophy or opinion regardless of its feasibility.