Sentence examples for our antecedent from inspiring English sources

We must also draw on our antecedent concept(s) of an organism and the status of organisms as biological individuals.

It is our antecedent commitments that shape our world, making situations and objects intelligible as threatening or favorable, easy or full of obstacles, or more generally, as affording certain actions (Sartre 1992a [1992a: 489).

Other forms of respect are modes of valuing, appreciating the object as having an objective worth or importance that is independent of, perhaps even at variance with, our antecedent desires or commitments.

Elijah Millgram (1996) suggests that just as new experiences can reveal to us hitherto unknown reasons for belief, so too new experiences (involving unexpected pleasures) can reveal to us reasons for action independent of our antecedent desires and dispositions.

Reflecting on the empirical information also allows us to fine-tune, amend, or challenge our antecedent concept(s), and to do so better than common sense reflection alone would.

The absence of developmental differences in SEIM use also characterized our antecedent analysis.

"Our antecedents on the plains of Africa weren't chewing on burgers," he explains.

"We were both a mixture of East and West, cut adrift from our antecedents.

We read the lives of our ancestors, our antecedents, in a single gulp, it seems, as if they could be so easily digested.

Last week's archive looked at the oldest under-21 players, but it seems our antecedents may have been a few days out.

Starve yourself once in a while, as our antecedents did for millions of years, by force of circumstance, and your body and digestive system go into recover and repair mode, giving rise to a whole host of physical benefits.