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Antecedence   Listen
noun
Antecedence  n.  
1.
The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
2.
(Astron.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.





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"Antecedence" Quotes from Famous Books



... either case, these feelings of resemblance, and of its opposite dissimilarity, are parts of our nature; and parts so far from being capable of analysis, that they are presupposed in every attempt to analyze any of our other feelings. Likeness and unlikeness, therefore, as well as antecedence, sequence, and simultaneousness, must stand apart among relations, as things sui generis. They are attributes grounded on facts, that is, on states of consciousness, but on states which ...
— A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive • John Stuart Mill
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... arrivals, there being a wide field for selection; and even how individuals had spoken to persons subsequently attacked—had stopped at their doors—had passed their houses, &c.[8] Causation is at once connected with antecedence, at least for a time, by the people at large, who see their government putting on cordons and quarantines, and the most vague public rumour becomes an assumed fact. We even find, as may be seen in the quotation given from ...
— Letters on the Cholera Morbus. • James Gillkrest
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Words linked to "Antecedence" :   antecedency, antecedent, precedency, priority, anteriority, posteriority, antecede, precedence, earliness


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