Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Following as a natural effect, result, or conclusion.
- adjective Following as a logical conclusion.
- adjective Logically correct or consistent.
- adjective Geology Having a position or direction determined by the original form or slope of the earth's surface.
- noun Logic The conclusion, as of a syllogism or a conditional sentence.
- noun The second term of a ratio.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In physical geography, resulting directly from original conditions; having a course determined by the form or slope of an initial land-surface: as, a consequent divide, consequent drainage, a consequent river, a consequent valley, etc. Contrasted with
insequent , 2,obsequent , 2,antecedent , 2. - Following as an effect or result, or as a necessary inference; having a relation of sequence: with on, or rarely to: as, the war and the consequent poverty; the poverty consequent on the war.
- Following in time; subsequent.
- Characterized by correctness of inference or connectedness of reasoning; logical: as, a consequent action.
- noun Effect or result; that which proceeds from a cause; outcome.
- noun In logic: That member of a hypothetical proposition which contains the conclusion. See
antecedent . The conclusion of a consequence, or necessary inference conceived as consisting of an antecedent (or premise) and a consequent (or conclusion), and as governed by a consequence (or principle of consecution). - noun 3. In music, same as
comes , 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Following as a result, inference, or natural effect.
- adjective (Logic) Following by necessary inference or rational deduction.
- adjective (Magnetism) a number of poles distributed under certain conditions, along the axis of a magnetized steel bar, which regularly has but the two poles at the extremities.
- noun That which follows, or results from, a cause; a result or natural effect.
- noun (Logic) That which follows from propositions by rational deduction; that which is deduced from reasoning or argumentation; a conclusion, or inference.
- noun (Math.) The second term of a ratio, as the term
b in the ratio a:b, the firsta , being theantecedent .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Following as a
result ,inference , or natural effect. - adjective Of or pertaining to
consequences . - noun logic The second half of a
hypothetical proposition ; Q, if the form of the proposition is "If P, then Q." - noun An event which follows another.
- noun mathematics The second
term of aratio , i.e. the term b in the ratio a:b, the other being theantecedent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective following or accompanying as a consequence
Etymologies
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Examples
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From this perspective, at least, it would seem that the Greeks did not think of sexual relationships as divided up along the line of the sexes of the participants as we do, and by implication at least, that they experienced desire differently in consequent ways.
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Dually, other irrelevant entailments are those that turn out to be valid just because the consequent is a necessary truth
Impossible Worlds Berto, Francesco 2009
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In God, the physical and mental poles are called the consequent nature and the primordial nature respectively.
Process Theism Viney, Donald 2008
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Hence, his knowledge of that consequent, which is that S is one meter long at t0, is also a posteriori, contrary to what Kripke claims.
A Priori Justification and Knowledge Russell, Bruce 2007
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Oh, and by the way, your description of an “undesigned universe” takes for granted that our universe is designed, which means you are affirming the consequent, which is a fallacy.
Teach the Controversy? Why not Teach ALL Controversies? - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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As others have pointed out, affirmation of the consequent is a seductive and insidious error.
Daniel Dennett: Intelligent design? Show me the science - The Panda's Thumb 2005
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Likewise also with those that depend on the Consequent: for the consequent is a branch of Accident.
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Likewise also with those that depend on the Consequent: for the consequent is a branch of Accident.
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Reichstag consequent upon the elections of 1903 and
The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914
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Under such reasoning it has become the essential idea of society and remains so still, notwithstanding the perversion of philosophical terms consequent upon later confusion of man with beast, stock, and stone.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
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