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VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – ANTECEDENT

ANTECEDENT (antecedo, to go before).—In a relation, whether logical or metaphysical, the first term is the antecedent, the second the consequent. Thus, in the relation of causality, the cause is the antecedent, and the effect the consequent.

«Antecedent is that part of a conditional proposition on which the other depends» (Whately, Logic, bk. II. ch. IV. sec. 6).— V. PROPOSITION HYPOTHETICAL.