If liberty lie in the stated antecedence of volition to effects, and if liberty is measured by the necessity of the relation, then when the antecedent is changed, the relation remaining the same, liberty must still be present.
In the third place, the liberty here affirmed belongs equally to every instance of stated antecedence and sequence.
The liberty which is taken to reside in the connexion between volition and effects, is a liberty lying in a connexion of stated antecedence and sequence, and is perfect according as this connexion is necessary and unimpeded.
If we take any other instance of stated antecedence and sequence, the reasoning is the same.
Natural ability is the fixed and constituted antecedence itself.
The special characteristic of a memory surely is not its vividness; but that it is a complex idea, in which the idea of that which is remembered is related by co-existence with other ideas, and by antecedence with present impressions.
In the first place there is the idea of an object; and secondly, there is the idea of the relation of antecedence between that object and some present objects.
In other words their antecedence is conditional upon something else (na svâtantrye.na).
In fact the antecedence must not only be unconditionally invariable, but must also be immediate.
Antecedence in time is regarded in this view as an indispensable condition for the cause.
Could we, in fact, see all the minute changes in bodies we should actually perceive that cause means nothing but 'the immediate invariable antecedence of an event.
Antecedence and consequence, like likeness and unlikeness, must therefore, according to J.
Causation, as Brown had finally proved,[519] means simplyantecedence and consequence.
Until we had done so, we had only proved invariable antecedence within the limits of experience, but not unconditional antecedence, or causation.
Our knowing, previous to experience, that an antecedent will be followed by a certain consequent, would not prove the relation between them to be any thing more than antecedence and consequence.
Respecting the phenomena of inanimate nature, we have no other direct knowledge than that of antecedence and sequence.
One pauses to remark that the relationship between the pagan and Christian mysteries was not one of causal antecedence so much as one of analogous growth.
In many ways men have expressed, and will express hereafter, the creative or causal antecedence of the spiritual principle.
The chief principle, then, of savage science is that antecedence and consequence in time are the same as effect and cause.
We see the same confusion between antecedenceand consequence in time on one side, and cause and effect on the other, when the Red Indians aver that birds actually bring winds and storms or fair weather.
We might wish, perhaps, to consider as characteristic of this absolute antecedence the establishment of the authority without which teaching, properly so called, cannot begin.
It should not now be necessary to criticise this concept of a reality assumed to exist, in antecedence to the activity of the spirit, and which is the sole support of this distinction between will and intellect.
We formulate the laws of evolution in terms of antecedence and sequence; we also refer these laws to an underlying cause, the noumenal mode of action of which is inexplicable.
In both cases we believe that the results are due to the operation of natural laws, that is to say, can, with adequate knowledge, be described in terms of antecedence and sequence.
As every effect or consequence implies the antecedence of the purpose of an agent, with respect to this consequence we find it stated in Luke viii.
Our knowing, previous to experience, that an antecedent will be followed by a certain consequent, would not prove the relation between them to be anything more than antecedence and consequence.
One on the part of eternal predestination itself: and in this respect it implies a certain antecedence in regard to that which comes under predestination.
Apostle is: "Who was destined to be the Son of God in power"; so that no antecedence is implied.
Secondly, it may be referred to the very nature of the action itself: that is, forasmuch as predestination implies antecedence and gratuitous effect.
Four years ago, I wrote thus: 'Do states of consciousness enter as links into the chain of antecedence and sequence, which gives rise to bodily actions?
We may explain why Thrasyllus placed the Kleitophon in immediateantecedence to the Republic: because 1.
Hume seemed to think he could abate the unpopularity of this doctrine by interpreting the constant motivation of human actions as a mere relation of antecedence and consequence.
Hume's analysis of causation into antecedence and sequence of phenomena is accepted by Mill as it was accepted by Kant; but the law that every change must have a cause is affirmed, in adhesion to Dr.
Our knowing, previous to experience, that an antecedent will be followed by a certain consequent, would not prove the relation between them to be anything more than antecedence and consequence.
And a posteriori, it will be proved by the principle itself when it is discovered, as involving universal antecedence in its very conception.
It is of invariable antecedencethat we speak alike in both cases, and of invariable antecedence only.
