anteriority

The ogive is, perhaps, very ancient; and authors dispute as to the anteriority of the Romanesque to the Gothic.

We should here draw a distinction between the two senses of the a priori: anteriority and superiority.

This anteriority of nature is a commonplace in philosophy: thus one says that the decrees of God have an order among themselves.

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.

A simple physical mechanism may be a priori, in the sense of anteriority.