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What does antecedence mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of preceding in time or order.
  2. (astronomy) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
  3. (geology) A geologic process that explain how and why antecedent rivers can cut through mountain systems instead of going around them.
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The chief principle, then, of savage science is that antecedence and consequence in time are the same as effect and cause.
This has a long antecedence, and the book reviews some of the historical and theoretical literature on the nature of law, including some Marxist sources.
Now Afro-Americans, frustrated in their search for antecedence in their African line, might turn to their Scottish roots.
God has established an order in nature, a uniformity of antecedence and sequence, with which Omnipotence shall not interfere.
Among the most interesting aspects of this three-volume work, as Chiasson observes, is its antecedence to more recent work in psychoacoustics.
This antecedence of being does not yet have the responsibility of being.

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