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Definition of Consecutions
1. consecution [n] - See also: consecution
Lexicographical Neighbors of Consecutions
Literary usage of Consecutions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton, John Veitch, Henry Longueville Mansel (1870)
"Nay more ; this theory evolves the absolute notion of causality out of the
observation of a certain number of uniform consecutions among ..."
2. New Essays Concerning Human Understanding by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Carl Immanuel Gerhardt (1916)
"The consecutions of the brutes are merely like those of simple empirics, who
claim that what has sometimes happened will happen again in acase where ..."
3. The Metaphysics of Sir William Hamilton by William Hamilton (1872)
"Nay more, this theory evolves the absolute notion of causality out of the
observation of a certain number of uniform consecutions among phenomena ; [that is ..."
4. Philosophy of Sir William Hamilton, Bart by Sir William Hamilton (1860)
"For we find no difficulty in conceiving the converse of one or of all observed
consecutions, and yet, the causal judgment which, ex hypothesi, ..."
5. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform by William Hamilton (1852)
"For we find no difficulty in conceiving the converse of one or of all observed
consecutions: and yet, the causal judgment which, ex hypothesi, ..."
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