antecedence

We may explain why Thrasyllus placed the Kleitophon in immediate antecedence to the Republic: because 1.

Causation, as Brown had finally proved, means simply antecedence and consequence.

It is of invariable antecedence that we speak alike in both cases, and of invariable antecedence only.

Or do 'states of consciousness enter as links into the chain of antecedence and sequence which gives rise to bodily actions?'

In many ways men have expressed, and will express hereafter, the creative or causal antecedence of the spiritual principle.