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antecedence

[an-tuh-seed-ns] / ˌæn təˈsid ns /


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The literature for the metaverse in its antecedence is dystopic.

From The Verge Jul. 19, 2022

For your own guidance, as to His Imperial Majesty's antecedence, I am enclosing herein a copy of His Biography.

From Time Magazine Archive

Four years ago, I wrote thus: 'Do states of consciousness enter as links into the chain of antecedence and sequence, which gives rise to bodily actions?

From Fragments of science, V. 1-2 by John Tyndall

Until we had done so, we had only proved invariable antecedence, but not unconditional antecedence, or causation.

From A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) by John Stuart Mill

One on the part of eternal predestination itself: and in this respect it implies a certain antecedence in regard to that which comes under predestination.

From Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas




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