Sentence examples for antecedently known from inspiring English sources
The positive analogy is antecedently known to be irrelevant to the hypothetical analogy.
Subjectivists invoke (2.1d) to explain why scientists so often regard improbable or surprising evidence as having more confirmatory potential than evidence that is antecedently known.
Deriving "2 + 2 = 4" from our set-theoretic axioms does not increase our confidence in the truth of "2 + 2 = 4", but the fact that we can derive this antecedently known fact (and not derive other propositions which we know to be false) does increase our confidence in the truth of the axioms.
Briefly, if a quale is partly individuated by the subject's environment, then it seems one could not know that one had a quale of fire engine red unless one antecedently knew the actual color of fire engines.
While this may be done in cases where we antecedently know the chances, it is of no use in circumstances where the existence of chance is to be inferred from the existence of a random sequence of outcomes, in line with RCT for every sequence there is some chance measure according to which it is random, which threatens to trivialise the inference from randomness to chance.
It is also a case in which we should let what we come to know about cognitive development in children help shape our epistemology, rather than counting on our antecedently formulated epistemology to shape our conception of cognitive development in children (see Rosch and Lloyd, 1978, and Gelman, 2003).
