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antecedent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Antecedent may
refer to:
Antecedent (behavioral psychology), the
stimulus that
occurs before a trained...
-
Denying the
antecedent (also
known as
inverse error or
fallacy of the inverse) is a
formal fallacy of
inferring the
inverse from an
original statement...
- An
antecedent is the
first half of a
hypothetical proposition,
whenever the if-clause
precedes the then-clause. In some
contexts the
antecedent is called...
- In grammar, an
antecedent is one or more
words that
establish the
meaning of a
pronoun or
other pro-form. For example, in the
sentence "John
arrived late...
- Ocean. Two different, well-cited models, the
subsidence model and the
antecedent karst model, have been used to
explain the
development of atolls. According...
- In
statistics and
social sciences, an
antecedent variable is a
variable that
cannot help to
explain the
apparent relationship (or part of the relationship)...
- An
antecedent stream is a
stream that
maintains its
original course and
pattern despite the
changes in
underlying rock topography. A
stream with a dendritic...
- In
English grammar, a
pronoun has a
possessive antecedent if its
antecedent (the noun that it
refers to)
appears in the
possessive case; for example, in...
- fall, the
rainfall will
immediately produce surface runoff. The
level of
antecedent soil
moisture is one
factor affecting the time
until soil
becomes saturated...
- end with a
weaker or
stronger cadence,
depending on
whether it is an
antecedent phrase or a
consequent phrase, the
first or
second half of a period. However...
