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- noun Plural form of
consequent .
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Examples
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This is rather less the case with another foolish fancy -- the belief that it is necessary to account not merely for what we call the consequents, but for the antecedents of all the characters (at least those of any importance) that you introduce.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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The counterfactual assumption is discharged, but Kass has snuck one of its consequents back into the main derivation.
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The basic idea here is that conditionals with moral antecedents and nonmoral consequents should, together with the moral judgment in the antecedent, license acceptance of the consequent.
Boys in White Suits 2009
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In synthesis, on the other hand, we suppose that which was reached last in analysis to be already done, and arranging in their natural order as consequents (epomena) the former antecedents and linking them one with another, we in the end arrive at the construction of the thing sought.
Analysis Beaney, Michael 2009
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The counterfactual assumption is discharged, but Kass has snuck one of its consequents back into the main derivation.
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As the scientist James Clerk Maxwell put it, the “metaphysical doctrine that from the same antecedents follow the same consequents... is not of much use in a world like this, in which the same antecedents never again concur, and nothing ever happens twice.”
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As the scientist James Clerk Maxwell put it, the “metaphysical doctrine that from the same antecedents follow the same consequents... is not of much use in a world like this, in which the same antecedents never again concur, and nothing ever happens twice.”
December 2008 2008
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They result from the choices and actions of numerous individuals rather than fixed natural laws, and the causal pathways that link antecedents to consequents are less exact than those linking gas leaks to explosions.
Archive 2008-12-01 Daniel Little 2008
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It is a metaphysical doctrine that from the same antecedents follow the same consequents...
May 2008 2008
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It is a metaphysical doctrine that from the same antecedents follow the same consequents...
Maxwell's Hammer 2008
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