antecedent
noun
- in behavioral psychology, stimulus that cues an organism to perform a learned behavior
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ˌæntɪˈsiːdənt/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
- Earlier, either in time or in order.
“an antecedent cause”
“an event antecedent to the Biblical Flood”
- Presumptive.
“an antecedent improbability”
noun
Etymology: From Middle English antecedent, borrowed from Old French antecedent, from Latin antecēdēns (“going before”), from antecēdō (“to precede; excel; surpass”).
- Any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing.
- 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.”
- 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”
“One such condition can be formulated in terms of the c-command relation defined in (9) above: the relevant condition is given in (16) below: (16) C-COMMAND CONDITION ON ANAPHORS An anaphor must have an appropriate c-commanding antecedent”
- The conditional part of a hypothetical proposition, i.e. p→q, where p is the antecedent, and q is the consequent.
- The first of two subsets of a sequent, consisting of all the sequent's formulae which are valuated as true.
- The first term of a ratio, i.e. the term a in the ratio a:b, the other being the consequent.
- Previous principles, conduct, history, etc.