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Antecedent (logic)
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first half of an hypothetical proposition
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We must not leave this phase of the discussion, however, until it is quite clear that our objection is not to Lotze's position that reflective thought arises from an antecedent which is not reflectional in character; nor yet to his idea that this antecedent has a certain structure and content of its own setting the peculiar problem of thought, giving the cue to its specific activities and determining its object. On…
John Dewey, Essays in Experimental Logic
The chapter “THE ANTECEDENTS AND STIMULI OF THINKING” is titled for Antecedent; names Antecedent several times.
For it may be just as true that I said a man is an ass, as that I said Socrates runs, or God is: and the same applies to necessary and contingent. Hence it must be said that this antecedent is absolutely necessary. Nor does it follow, as some say, that the consequent is absolutely necessary, because the antecedent is the remote cause of the consequent, which is contingent by reason of the proximate cause. But this…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
Names Antecedent several times; states what Antecedent is.
If we can produce the antecedent artificially, and if, when we do so, the effect follows, the induction is complete; that antecedent is the cause of that consequent.[32] But we have then added the evidence of experiment to that of simple observation. Until we had done so, we had only proved _invariable_ antecedence within the limits of experience, but not _unconditional_ antecedence, or causation.
John Stuart Mill, A System of Logic
Names Antecedent several times; states what Antecedent is.
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