antecedence

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Other presentations also considered the slippery issue of authorship when antecedence, originality and context are in question.

From The Guardian

In both cases we believe that the results are due to the operation of natural laws, that is to say, can, with adequate knowledge, be described in terms of antecedence and sequence.

From Project Gutenberg

We might wish, perhaps, to consider as characteristic of this absolute antecedence the establishment of the authority without which teaching, properly so called, cannot begin.

From Project Gutenberg

In the third place, the liberty here affirmed belongs equally to every instance of stated antecedence and sequence.

From Project Gutenberg

Nor is it more to the purpose to undertake a subtle analysis of the nature of causation, and to explain that it does not, properly speaking, involve compulsion, but simply means invariable antecedence.

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