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- noun plural This previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else.
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- noun Things previously known, or which should be known in order to understand something else.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The rules established in the schools, that all reasonings are Ex praeognitis et praeconcessis, seem to lay the foundation of all other knowledge in these maxims, and to suppose them to be praecognita.
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Which being known without any proof, do evince, That either all knowledge does not depend on certain praecognita or general maxims, called principles; or else that these are principles: and if these are to be counted principles, a great part of numeration will be so.
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Which being known without any proof, do evince, That either all knowledge does not depend on certain praecognita or general maxims, called principles; or else that these are principles: and if these are to be counted principles, a great part of numeration will be so.
God, Aids & Circumcision Hill, George 2005
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Haec igitur etiam praecognita liberos habent euentus.
The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius 1908
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These _praecognita_ being now made good, come we to speak more particularly of the power of princes to make laws and ordinances about things which concern the worship of God.
The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630
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It having been the common received opinion amongst men of letters, that maxims were the foundation of all knowledge; and that the sciences were each of them built upon certain praecognita from whence the understanding was to take its rise, and by which it was to conduct itself in its inquiries into the matters belonging to that science, the beaten road of the Schools has been, to lay down in the beginning one or more general propositions, as foundations whereon to build the knowledge that was to be had of that subject.
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