Whether we succeed or not can only be left to posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [Art or exhibitionism? « Jahsonic] Reference
Besides, magnitudes, like numbers, admit of priority and posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
We have stated, then, how matters stand with regard to whole and part, and their priority and posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
You may be interested to read Jim West's review of "the myth of the lost gospel" which argues for Matthean posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [Did Matthew Know Luke? A Neglected Angle on the Synoptic Problem] Reference
The men who introduced this doctrine did not posit Ideas of classes within which they recognized priority and posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [The Nicomachean Ethics] Reference
I understand that he argues for some form of Matthean posteriority, but I'll have to wait for the book to get the details. From Wordnik.com. [Did Matthew Know Luke? A Neglected Angle on the Synoptic Problem] Reference
For some things are produced out of each other by combination, others by separation, and this makes the greatest difference to their priority and posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
Now despite being essentially the same, the matter is not characterized by posteriority, unlike the composite, and the composite is not characterized by priority, unlike the matter. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Abelard] Reference
But if St. Thomas held for a posteriority of time, no matter how short, we ask how it was that he did not perceive the fallacy of the argument, since it might be neither before nor after, but in the very instant of, animation. From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
H.A. Wolfson has presented evidence for A.istotle's recognition of a type of term intermediate between equivocal and univocal terms, some instances of which were characterized by their use according to priority and posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [Medieval Theories of Analogy] Reference
Ghazali did not deny that events in the world are ordered in sequences of priority and posteriority, tem - poral and ontological, ordinarily regarded as causes and effects and on the basis of which scientific inferences about nature can be drawn. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
With their order-I mean the position of each, as involving the priority of some and the posteriority of others, and their respective distances from the extremity-with this astronomy may be left to deal, since the astronomical discussion is adequate. From Wordnik.com. [On the Heavens] Reference
Let's not forget that Spanish has inherited the following from Classical latin: "The rules tha regulates the verb in the regent clause and in the subordinate one in order to express anteriority, posteriority and contemporaneity; usually the subordinate clause go to subjunctive mood, and there are still present the infinitive clauses in spanish also the accusative dative.". From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: ITALIAN DIALECTS.] Reference
The posteriority of these as we have them need not be too much dwelt upon. From Wordnik.com. [The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)] Reference
Not only are they not always the same, they are also subject to a certain order of priority and posteriority. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The Father, unbegotten, stood alone and supreme; the very idea of "begotten" implied posteriority, inferiority, and unlikeness. From Wordnik.com. [NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works] Reference
We find (p. 93) Conflation, or Conflate Readings, introduced as proving the 'posteriority of Syrian to Western ... and other ... readings.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Causes of the Corruption of the Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels Being the Sequel to The Traditional Text of the Holy Gospels] Reference
The posteriority of the Mosaic structure comes into clearer light from the two following considerations brought forward by Graf (p. 60 seq.). From Wordnik.com. [Prolegomena] Reference
To dispute over the posteriority or priority of mind is all very well, but to deny mind in the name of fatality is an exclusion which nothing justifies. From Wordnik.com. [System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery] Reference
Dufour uses the concept of hysterology ( "a figure of rhetoric based upon the inversion of anteriority and posteriority") to consider the problem of the postmodern subject. From Wordnik.com. [I cite] Reference
The names of the others are found on linguistic and other tablets, in a connection which rarely enables us to determine anything with respect to their relative priority or posteriority. From Wordnik.com. [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference
For one has almost no criteria, with which to discover whether the hymns precede or follow the ritual, other than the linguistic posteriority of the ritualistic literature, and the knowledge that there were priests with. From Wordnik.com. [The Religions of India Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume 1, Edited by Morris Jastrow] Reference
For it is reasonable both that the units should have priority and posteriority if there is a first unit or first 1, and also that the 2’s should if there is a first 2; for after the first it is reasonable and necessary that there should be a second, and if a second, a third, and so with the others successively. From Wordnik.com. [Metaphysics] Reference
The men who introduced this doctrine did not posit Ideas of classes within which they recognized priority and posteriority (which is the reason why they did not maintain the existence of an Idea embracing all numbers); but the term 'good' is used both in the category of substance and in that of quality and in that of relation, and that which is per se, i.e. substance, is prior in nature to the relative (for the latter is like an off shoot and accident of being); so that there could not be a common Idea set over all these goods. From Wordnik.com. [The NICOMACHEAN ETHICS] Reference
I conceive (though it may seem at first somewhat strange) that that part which is variably referred, sometimes to logic, sometimes to metaphysic, touching the common adjuncts of essences, is but an elenche; for the great sophism of all sophisms being equivocation or ambiguity of words and phrase, specially of such words as are most general and intervene in every inquiry, it seemeth to me that the true and fruitful use (leaving vain subtleties and speculations) of the inquiry of majority, minority, priority, posteriority, identity, diversity, possibility, act, totality, parts, existence, privation, and the like, are but wise cautions against ambiguities of speech. From Wordnik.com. [The Advancement of Learning] Reference
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