In other words, when we say that x is a cause of y, we mean that instances of x and instances of y are always near each other in time and space, that instances of x occur before instances of y, and that there is some connection between x's and y's that makes it necessary that an instance of y occurs if an instance of x does.
Russell Beale's lecture was studded with insights; I'd never noticed before, for instance, that Cassius in Julius Caesar threatens to kill himself in every scene in which he appears.
What if a person of that importance had died before, for instance, there was a legal chance to marry?
Since no tag is needed for affinity purification, it is not necessary to produce tagged proteins that must be buffer exchanged, digested and re-purified before, for instance, being used in crystallography.
Add all that up and you have, as with the Taliban and al-Qaeda before, another instance of the United States arming a future foe and then creating the conditions necessary for them to thrive.
This connection has been considered before, for instance its sectional curvature has been computed.
Why there are vastly fewer now than there were before, for instance.
This feedback process is known as counter-performativity and had been noted before, for instance with Black-Scholes.
I wrote before, for instance, about Unilever aiming for zero non-hazardous waste in their factories.
The puzzle is that every instance of a green emerald examined before time t is also an instance of a grue emerald.
Pinterest announced the week before last, for instance, that it is blocking all search results related to vaccinations, whether the results are medically accurate or not, as executives try to come up with a more reliable solution.
