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antecedent in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Antecedent may
refer to:
Antecedent (behavioral psychology), the
stimulus that
occurs before a trained...
- 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...
-
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...
- 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...
- An
antecedent is a
stimulus that cues an
organism to
perform a
learned behavior. When an
organism perceives an
antecedent stimulus, it
behaves in a way...
- 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...
-
common in abstract,
theoretical or
strategic discourse.
Examples (with the
antecedent in
boldface and the
referring pronoun in italics)
include "readers of...
- In
statistics and
social sciences, an
antecedent variable is a
variable that
cannot help to
explain the
apparent relationship (or part of the relationship)...
-
pronoun derived from
plural they. It
typically occurs with an
indeterminate antecedent, to
refer to an
unknown person, or to
refer to
every person of some group...
