antecedent

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Earlier, either in time or in order.

   “an antecedent cause”

2. sıfat Presumptive.

   “an antecedent improbability”

3. isim Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
4. isim An ancestor.

   “The Boston agent added that this clerk was a young man of wholly unquestioned veracity and reliability, of known antecedents and long with the company.”

5. isim A word, phrase or clause referred to by a pronoun or other pro-form.

   “[W]hereas it might seem orderly that, as who is appropriated to persons, so that should have been appropriated to things […] the antecedent of that is often personal”

6. isim The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
7. isim The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
8. isim The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
9. isim Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.