Antecedent

See: Rule Antecedent, Anaphor.

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References

• WordNet.
  • ancestor: someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent)
  • a preceding occurrence or cause or event
  • anything that precedes something similar in time; "phrenology was an antecedent of modern neuroscience"
  • the referent of an anaphor; a phrase or clause that is referred to by an anaphoric pronoun
  • preceding in time or order
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antecedent_(grammar)
  • In grammar, an antecedent is generally the noun or noun phrase to which an anaphor refers in a coreference. However, an antecedent can also be a clause, especially when the anaphor is a demonstrative. ...
• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antecedent_(logic)
  • An antecedent is the first half of a hypothetical proposition.
• en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Antecedents
  • any thing that precedes another thing, especially the cause of the second thing; one's ancestors; a word, phrase or clause referred to by a ...
• http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/projects/milca/courses/comsem/xhtml/d0e1-gloss.xhtml
  • antecedent Calculi: The antecedents (also called ↗premises) of a rule of a calculus are those formulas that must already have been derived for the rule to be applicable. In standard notation, they are written above the bar in inference rule schemata.
• CYC Glossary http://www.cyc.com/cycdoc/ref/glossary.html
  • antecedent: The antecedent of a rule is its left-hand side, that is, the first argument to the #$implies connective with which the rule begins. Intuitively, every rule states that if the antecedent is true, then the consequent must be true.

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