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Antecedence
Antecedence meaning
The relationship of preceding something in time or order. | That which precedes something or someone (e.g. prior events, origin, ancestry). | The length of time by which one event or time period precedes another.
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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.