anteriority
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Priority -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
This anteriority of nature is a commonplace in philosophy: thus one says that the decrees of God have an order among themselves.
From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.
We should here draw a distinction between the two senses of the a priori: anteriority and superiority.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
The ogive is, perhaps, very ancient; and authors dispute as to the anteriority of the Romanesque to the Gothic.
From Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life by Flaubert, Gustave
A simple physical mechanism may be a priori, in the sense of anteriority.
From The Mind and the Brain Being the Authorised Translation of L'Âme et le Corps by Binet, Alfred
