Sentence examples for antecedent reason from inspiring English sources

There is some antecedent reason to expect that the challenges will be great in this area.

There is no antecedent reason to regard the medieval period in philosophy as coinciding exactly with the medieval period in, say, architecture or literature.

Hence distinct antecedent reasons determine truths; distinct prior grounds determine things.

Roxanne is a driver who believes whatever her gas gauge "says" about the state of her fuel tank, although she has no antecedent reasons to believe it is reliable.

"Realism" says that the correctness of moral judgments resides in their truth, and that truth of most fundamental moral principles consists in their corresponding to a moral order (of moral facts or objects) that is antecedent to reason and to principles of practical reasoning.

Leading reasons for ineligibility included an antecedent cause of epilepsy, syndrome other than TLE, and seizure onset after age 35.

At the same time, the truths determined give meaning to the antecedent as their reason, and the things determined give context to the prior as their ground.

There is no doubt the patent laws sometimes fail to do justice to an individual who may, with the light he had before him, have exhibited inventive talent of a high order, and yet be denied a patent by reason of antecedent devices which actually existed, but not to his knowledge, and are only revealed after a careful search in the Patent Office.

Such antecedent stances are often the reason why philosophical agreement is so hard to reach.

God's necessary existence is the only state of affairs that is caused and does not have a sufficient reason in an antecedent state.

Though not everything possible happens (and, therefore not everything that happens is necessary), everything that happens has a sufficient reason in an antecedent state of the world.