antecedence
Noun
Meaning
The act or state of going before in time; precedence.
An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
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antecedency
priority
precedence
precedency
anteriority
order
primary
before
importance
rank
ahead
preceding
preference
anticipation
precession
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An occasion of singular causation is a particular occurrence of a definite complex of events that are physically linked by antecedence and contiguity, which we may here recognize as criteria 1. and 2. of Hume mentioned just above.
Precognition would violate the principle of antecedence ( causality ), that an effect does not happen before its cause.