antecedence

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From Latin antecēdentia from Latin antecēdēns (“preceding”), from antecēdō (“go before”).

I must necessarily set out from the one, to which therefore I give hypothetical antecedence, in order to arrive at the other. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The first is constituted by sensations associated together in such a way that a relation of antecedence and consequence exists between them. — Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding: A Critical Exposition, John Dewey

priority, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency

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