These terms are used with respect to reasoning (epistemology) to distinguish ''necessary conclusions from first premises'' (i.e., what must come before sense observation) from ''conclusions based on sense observation'' (which must follow it). Thus, the two kinds of knowledge, justification, or argument, may be glossed:
Answer this question, making sure that the answer is supposed by the text: science begins with the premise that knowledge should first be acquired through observation?
yes