It seems important to separate out the effects of emotional affective meaning and antecedent actions and objects to which words relate.
As the PVN may be particularly important as a site susceptible to fetal antecedent actions of excess glucocorticoids (Tobet et al. 2013), the current study also determined whether excess fetal glucocorticoids could impact PVN vascular characteristics.
The antecedents of action, he rightly concludes, involve some sort of faculty of desire; but he is reluctant to conclude that desire is the sole or sufficient faculty implicated in the explanation of purposive behavior.
The behavioral paradigm forces educators to define the antecedents of actions that students need to identify, and it reminds them to arrange the conditions so that the students' efforts will be meaningful to them.
Furthermore, because of unwilling traumatized victims or parents who want to protect their children from testifying, prosecutors are forced to offer plea deals that ultimately render hidden the antecedents and actions of a crime.
But in fact past events were not in his control in the past either if they too were determined by events in the more distant past, because eventually the causal antecedents of his action stretch back before his birth, and obviously events that occurred before his birth were not in his control.
In contrast to responses triggered by an external stimulus, the antecedents of voluntary action lie entirely in internal cognitive processes whose neurobiological underpinnings are poorly understood.
Such outcome views are not committed to the claim that the occurrence of the mental antecedent must precede the action.
As Thomas Nagel writes "Everything seems to result from the combined influence of factors, antecedent and posterior to action, that are not within the agent's control.
The term cause in sense I presupposes explanations that appeal to the notion of a practical argument in which the premises function not as antecedent conditions of the action, but as their logical ground.
Others have focused on a positive alternative to desire as a motivating state, and these latter have tended to focus on the idea that a judgment of what is good (or obligatory) is at least one further psychological state that can lead to action, independently of antecedent desire.
