anteriority
Example Sentences
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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
If in this admirable passage aught else dare be wished otherwise, it is the division and yet confusion of time and eternity, by giving an anteriority to the latter.
From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson
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
Priority -- N. priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Roget, Peter Mark
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
