Sentence examples for antecedent that from inspiring English sources

If an issue seems big to a contemporary author, it surely invokes a classical antecedent that's bigger.

The objective of this study is to investigate network externality as an antecedent that impacts SCRM adoption and also to describe its impact.

The overall account is intricate, but the basic idea is this: Call a logically closed set of true propositions stable if and only if the members of the set would remain true given any antecedent that is consistent with the set itself.

Thus, instead of the problematic inference above, from the truth of [~E!a] at w, by □FEG, it follows by only that [E!a → ∃x~E!x] is true at w. So, where a is Adams, from the truth of [Adams does not exist] at w it only follows — trivially, due to its false antecedent — that [If Adams exists, then something does not exist] is true at w.

And it has never been a satisfactory solution to authorize the masculine form to relate to an antecedent that is neither masculine or feminine: "One must know his own mind".

Our investigation demonstrated that an antecedent that has been shown to affect adults' SEIM use people's sexual orientation also influences adolescents' use of such material.

Many electrical devices now taken for granted had human-powered antecedents that date to only a generation ago.

The executive also pointed out that all three shows tonight have antecedents that would tend to lift them above other new shows that viewers have no familiarity with.

But the short, almost shrunken jackets crowding the fall 2005 runways have other historical antecedents that predate Pee-wee's arrival on his bicycle.

However it is Greek antecedents that are clearly the main influence on al-Kindi here.

For an account of counterfactuals with impossible antecedents that invokes impossible worlds, see Nolan (1997).