antecedence in a sentence

• Precognition would violate the principle of antecedence ( causality ), that an effect does not happen before its cause.
• In fact, the 1981 strike was antecedence to the Yankees'demise and downfall of the 1980s and 1990s and the strike in 1994 was part of that demise.
• Mighty but older streams like the Indus, Sutlej, Kali, Kosi and Brahmaputra have cut through steep gorges to escape into the Great Plains and have established their antecedence.
• Frustrated by their inability to refer directly to their Little River Band antecedence ( another band member now owns the rights to the name ), the trio perform as Birtles Shorrock Goble ( BSG ).
• (Note to Ed . : " If you'd read ` Huckleberry Finn'you'd know that using ` go for'as a synonym for ` attack'has high literary antecedence.
• De Kooning used his vast repertory of gesture and visual references to build, with lightning thrusts of paint on paint, figures that, despite their classical antecedence, were still infused with his own memories and desires.
• The compatibility of " libert?" and " 間alit?" was not doubted in the first days of the Revolution, and the problem of the antecedence of one term on the other not lifted.
• An occasion of singular causation is a particular occurrence of a definite complex of events that are physically linked by antecedence and contiguity, which we may here recognize as criteria 1 . and 2 . of Hume mentioned just above.
• Shaviro also finds fault with Harman's assertion that Whitehead, Simondon, and Iain Hamilton Grant undermine objects by positing objects as manifestations of a deeper, underlying substance, saying that the antecedence of these thinkers, particularly Grant and Simondon, includes the " plurality of actually existing objects, " rather than a single substance of which objects are mere epiphenomena.
• The third, to conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.
• It's difficult to see antecedence in a sentence .
• Edward Skidelsky, a lecturer in philosophy at Exeter University, has suggested that this is a new use for the word denial and it may have its origins in an old sense of " deny ", akin to " disown " ( as in the Apostle Peter denying Jesus ), but that its more immediate antecedence is from the Freudian sense of deny as a refusal to accept a painful or humiliating truth.
• Jake expands on Jean-Paul Sartre's famous existentialist line " existence precedes essence ", saying " existence not only precedes essence : in the case of human beings it rather defies essence . " The Doctor tells Jake, " Choosing is existence : to the extent that you don't choose, you don't exist . " To cope with inability to make decisions, the Doctor prescribes three therapies : the arbitrary principles of Sinistrality ( " If the alternatives are side by side, choose the one on the left " ), Antecedence ( " if they're consecutive in time, choose the earlier " ) and Alphabetic Priority ( " choose the alternative whose name begins with the earlier letter of the alphabet " ).