Sentence examples for be prior in from inspiring English sources

Aristotle rejects circular demonstration as an incoherent notion on the grounds that the premises of any demonstration must be prior (in an appropriate sense) to the conclusion, whereas a circular demonstration would make the same premises both prior and posterior to one another (and indeed every premise prior and posterior to itself).

However, as we have no logical or theoretical basis for considering any variable to be prior in terms of a hypothetical causal structure of the data (Cohen et al. 2013), and assigning priority to forest age would marginalise the year effect, and vice versa (Brown et al. 2011; Chen et al. 2016), we reported the results from simultaneously modelling effects of forest age and year.

"But (b) actuality is prior in a stricter sense also; for eternal things are prior in substance to perishable things, and no eternal thing exists potentially.

To all such potency, then, actuality is prior both in formula and in substantiality; and in time it is prior in one sense, and in another not.

"(2) In time it is prior in this sense: the actual which is identical in species though not in number with a potentially existing thing is to it.

So, for instance, human is prior in substance than body.

But the eternal is prior in substance to the perishable.

It is "prior" in the sense that it does not take into account any information about.

So what is actual is prior in substance to what is potential.

(b) Aristotle also offers (1050b6 1051a2) an "even stricter" argument for his claim that actuality is prior in substance to potentiality.

(1) Actuality is prior in logos since we must cite the actuality when we give an account of its corresponding potentiality.