Muleta Muleta A muleta is a stick with a red cloth hanging from it that is used in the final third ("tercio de muleta" or "de muerte") of a bullfight. It is different from the cape used by the matador earlier in the fight ("capote de brega"). The muleta obscures the sword, and as in his earlier work with the cape, the bullfighter uses it to attract the bull in a series of passes, demonstrating his control over it. The red color of the muleta is actually unnecessary, though, as bulls are dichromatic, meaning neither the cape nor the muleta color
A priori and a posteriori is metaphysical. The phrases ""a priori"" and ""a posteriori"" are Latin for "from what comes before" and "from what comes later" (or, less literally, "from first principles, before experience" and "after experience"). They appear in Latin translations of Euclid's "Elements", of about 300 , a work widely considered during the early European modern period as the model for precise thinking. An early philosophical use of what might be considered a notion of "a priori" knowledge (though not called by that name) is Plato's theory of recollection, related in the dialogue "Meno" (380 ), according to which something like "a priori"