Antecedently

Word ANTECEDENTLY
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The opinion that the name Jahveh was adopted by the Jews from the Chanaanites, has been defended … but has been rejected … It is antecedently improbable that Jahveh, the irreconcilable enemy of the Chanaanites, should be originally a Chanaanite god … ❋ Unknown (2009)

My thought is that religion can serve in amplifying and directing a commitment to previously accepted values: so, for example, if you are antecedently committed to relieving human suffering and to promoting equal opportunities, you may find particular parts of the Gospels inspiring. ❋ Michael Ruse (2010)

Reason does of course play a role in our moral life, but only as helping to guide us to an end antecedently determined by affection, in particular the affection of universal benevolence. ❋ Broadie, Alexander (2009)

Since nothing is ever present to the mind but perceptions, and since all ideas are deriv'd from something antecedently present to the mind, it follows, that 'tis impossible for us so much as to conceive or form an idea of any thing specifically different from ideas and impressions. ❋ Morris, William Edward (2009)

The notion of a sound deductive argument is (arguably) relatively clear (or at least something that can be regarded as antecedently understood from the point of view of characterizing scientific explanation). ❋ Woodward, James (2009)

For either (a) a bestowal itself cannot be justified (as on Singer's account), in which case the justification of love is impossible, or (b) a bestowal can be justified, in which case it is hard to make sense of value as being bestowed rather than there antecedently in the object as the grounds of that ❋ Helm, Bennett (2009)

Unlike the first three types of sameness, being “of a kind” entails that things are antecedently similar ❋ Fraser, Chris (2009)

If one is antecedently committed to empiricism, it may seem a manifestation of the appropriately intimate connection between the aesthetic character of a work and the value of the experience that the work affords. ❋ Shelley, James (2009)

The premisses must be the causes of the conclusion, better known than it, and prior to it; its causes, since we possess scientific knowledge of a thing only when we know its cause; prior, in order to be causes; antecedently known, this antecedent knowledge being not our mere understanding of the meaning, but knowledge of the fact as well. ❋ Kochiras, Hylarie (2009)

Both projects attempt to ground moral principles in the social contract, but the Lockean one does so by appealing to the antecedently given obligation to honor agreements, while the Hobbesian project attempts to explain the duty of fidelity itself, as one of a piece with other moral principles, in terms of the social contract. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The causal view is defended by Quinn (1979, 1990, 1999), and in a particularly strong form: on Quinn's view, the causal connection between God's antecedently intending that A φ and its being obligatory for A to φ exhibits totality, exclusivity, activity, immediacy, and necessity. ❋ Murphy, Mark (2008)

These metaphysical hypotheses were not to interpret reality as an antecedently given structure, whether Materialist or Idealist, which the pragmatic agent perceives as a corresponding passive spectator. ❋ Sidorsky, David (2008)

My explanation is that the faith in the possibility of science, generated antecedently to the development of modern scientific theory is an unconscious derivative from medieval theology. ❋ Unknown (2006)

One potential problem with this proposal is that it has the consequence that no evidence can provide much evidential support to a hypothesis that is antecedently very probable, because as the probability of H approaches one, the difference goes to zero. ❋ Talbott, William (2008)

It requires us to exercise our wills in a certain way given we have antecedently willed an end. ❋ Johnson, Robert (2008)

It does not, in other words, apply to us on the condition that we have antecedently adopted some goal for ourselves. ❋ Johnson, Robert (2008)

But it is not clear why we should hold that a set of individuals can have a collective right only if they are antecedently identifiable as members of a group. ❋ Jones, Peter (2008)

To be a realist about some kind of entities is to maintain that such entities objectively exist apart from, and antecedently to, anyone's thought of them; and, therefore, that our thoughts, beliefs and theories concerning such entities are made objectively true or objectively false by them, apart from what we think of them (more refined definitions of realism and anti-realism are certainly available; but this characterization will suffice for our purposes). ❋ Priest, Graham (2008)

But in both cases the sitter is not therefore seated because the opinion is true, but rather the opinion is true because antecedently he was sitting as a matter of fact. ❋ Unknown (2007)

In favor of Behe and his school, we may say that the possibility of sudden major changes effected by a higher intelligence should not be antecedently ruled out. ❋ Mike L (2007)

[Sheniqua's] wig fell off her head [Sheniqua]= antecedent her= [pronoun] ❋ Matershifu (2017)

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