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Meanings of antecedent cause in English
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Usage of antecedent cause in English
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Now things created by God are related to the divine will as to an antecedentcause, whereby they have necessity.
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Either there is no original impulse, or every original impulse has no antecedentcause, and there is no will properly so-called without freedom.
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For the one of these two consequences will follow from Fate's being an absolute, the other from its being only an antecedentcause.
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And if this-asmatter of speculation merely-wasthe case, must there not exist some antecedentcause to which could be referred such persistent effect?
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In any case, man has his antecedents ; life has its antecedents ; every beat of one's heart has its antecedentcause, which again has its antecedent.
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3: Further, whatever is necessary by its antecedentcause is necessary absolutely; it is thus necessary that animals should die, being compounded of contrary elements.