Sentence examples for antecedent existence from inspiring English sources
New evidence is provided for the antecedent existence of a temporally active third trunk river in addition to the ancestors of Danube and Tisza Rivers, contrary to the present-day two-axis drainage pattern.
1.The class certification issues are dispositive here in that their resolution is logically antecedent to the existence of any Article III issues.
Here Kant argues that although our basic pleasure in a beautiful object must be independent of any antecedent interest in its existence, we may add a further layer of pleasure to that basic experience if the existence of beautiful objects suggests some more generally pleasing fact about our situation in the world.
(i) A certain truth is an antecedent relative necessity when its existence causes the existence of another contingent truth (antecedens ut causa contingentis, inferens posterius naturaliter).
But this issue simply did not arise for Leibniz and his predecessors, given their antecedent belief in God's existence, and therefore it is inappropriate to charge these philosophers with begging the question.
Similarly, the existence of persons whose antecedent attitudinal framework or whose bias within their structuring of their perceptions limits their ability to observe the empirical evidence that is relevant for resolving an issue does not negate the objectivity of the factual evidence or the legitimacy of the acceptance of the hypotheses that represent the optimal interpretation of the data.
The most recognizable antecedent, perhaps, is the argument for the existence of God made by the Reverend William Paley in the early nineteenth century, in England; for him, the marvels of the human eye were proof of design by a supreme being.
(ii) A certain truth is a consequent relative necessity when its existence is caused by an antecedent (relative) necessity.
On the one hand, there can be no scientific explanation of God's existence, for there are neither antecedent beings nor scientific principles from which God's existence follows.
Perceptual knowledge is antecedent to verbal knowledge and cannot owe its existence to words.
