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• Some think it expresses doubt; for the consequent depends on the antecedent, and the antecedent, introduced by 'if,' may or may not be realised, as in If the sky is clear, the night is cold_: whether the sky is, or is not, clear being supposed to be uncertain. —  Logic Deductive and Inductive
• 4. «Nihil videō quod timeam», I see nothing to fear (nothing of such as character as to fear it a. Each of these examples contains a descriptive relative clause which tells what kind of a person or thing the antecedent is. —  Latin for Beginners
• The reasons, however, are obvious, and lie principally in two distinct causes--antecedent habits and personal character. —  Navaho Houses, pages 469-518 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898
• 2: Further, every conditional proposition of which the antecedent is absolutely necessary must have an absolutely necessary consequent. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition
• For the antecedent is to the consequent as principles are to the conclusion: and from necessary principles only a necessary conclusion can follow, as is proved in Poster. —  Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition

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