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sequent

[see-kwuhnt] / ˈsi kwənt /




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But there is no indication that sub sequent crops on the same land are affected by the chemical dousing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bellow's sub sequent novel, Henderson the Rain King, rambled even more; and in Herzog the tension has snapped completely in a flood of good will.

From Time Magazine Archive

The whole criticism is tersely conveyed in the form of two sequent propositions—namely, "Every species which exists, exists in virtue of adaptation; and whatever accounts for that adaptation accounts for the existence of the species."

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

I will now conclude by briefly summarizing these matters of general principle in the form of twelve sequent propositions.

From Darwin, and After Darwin (Vol 3 of 3) Post-Darwinian Questions: Isolation and Physiological Selection by George John Romanes

Merely that this case is met by another and sequent assumption, which constitutes an integral part of the Neo-Darwinian creed—namely, that in nature there can be no such characters.

From Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2 Post-Darwinian Questions: Heredity and Utility by George John Romanes

What we observe in relation to all causes—not ourselves, whether they be self-conscious or not, is not the nisus, but the sequents of the nisus.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

Now it must be supposed to have a connexion by a chain of sequents and antecedents with a first cause.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

The connexion between volition and its sequents, is just as wonderful and inexplicable, as the connexion between will and its volitions.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

And the connexion between volition and its sequents is just as necessary as the connexion between volition and its motives.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan

Relative necessity is relative to the will in the connexion between volition and its sequents.

From A Review of Edwards's by Henry Philip Tappan




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