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Example sentences for "precondition"

Lexicographically close words:
precognition; preconceived; preconception; preconceptions; preconcerted; precor; precordial; precursor; precursors; precursory
  1. And yet theory originally {6} fashions science out of facts and is the indispensable precondition of every important scientific advance.

  2. Freud, who has adopted the concept of introversion [with some restrictions] regards the introversion of the libido as a regular and necessary precondition of every psychoneurosis.

  3. For the practice of alchemy a moral behavior is required, which is hardly necessary as a precondition of merely chemical work.

  4. Retirement is a precondition of introversion and of withdrawal into oneself.

  5. But to see that to the empiricist this distinction is not verbal, but genuine, is the precondition of any understanding of him.

  6. And as they thus precondition consciousness, they cannot themselves be known to be conscious; and not being known to be conscious, it is not even certain that they may legitimately be described as mental.

  7. Does the whole precondition the parts, or does it arise through combination of the parts?

  8. The manifold of outer sense is as indispensable a precondition of experience as are the forms of understanding, and yet is not a priori in any valid sense of that term.

  9. First, the regular repetition of reproduction is the general sine qua non of regular consumption which in its turn has been the precondition of human civilisation in every one of its historical forms.

  10. Even their baptism, significant and memorable as it was, had not been required as in itself a precondition of salvation.

  11. His conviction of sin supplied the moral precondition necessary in every case to saving faith in Christ.

  12. The value of the money is a precondition of the money-function.

  13. Value is an essential precondition of exchangeability, but can exist without it.

  14. The precondition of every true calling must be, not love for art, but love for mankind.

  15. A cleavage between life and the form in which it has to be lived, is the genuine sign of a true life, the precondition of all that is good.

  16. Nay more, it is necessary to pull down the old buildings and to clear the ground before we can begin to build anew; the analytic spirit is the precondition of the synthetic.

  17. It is simply a precondition of mind enabling us to perceive things.

  18. They have no real existence save as objects of thought, and therefore the very thought, which you say your atoms produce, turns out to be the essential precondition of their own existence.

  19. The consciousness of preexistence is the indispensable precondition of the total demand which he makes in the Synoptics.

  20. Their descriptions of human behavior, if inadequate and unscientific, at least recognized that an understanding of human nature was a precondition to social reorganization.

  21. Even biologically, two individuals of the higher animal species are the precondition to a new individual existence.

  22. War, from this point of view, is a precondition for development along new lines of necessity, and the dedifferentiation is the first stage of a constructive process.

  23. With the child we assume that the precondition is rather the willing disposition which makes him ready to submit to any problem and material presented from without.

  24. With the adult we unquestioningly assume that an attitude of personal inquiry, based upon the possession of a problem which interests and absorbs, is a necessary precondition of mental growth.

  25. Various moral causes would naturally form a suitable precondition for its manifestation.

  26. In cases of mania produced by mental action the removal of the exciting cause is the precondition of its cure, and in many cases effects it.

  27. Such a state of man's moral nature would form a suitable precondition to enable a superhuman being to overpower the reason and the will, the supremacy of which was already impaired by an influence from within.

  28. The precondition of well-being, for which each man strives by nature, is security for life and health.


  29. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "precondition" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.