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 1      I,  2 |   immediate, better known than and prior to the conclusion, which
 2      I,  2 |          better known than it, and prior to it; its causes, since
 3      I,  2 |            when we know its cause; prior, in order to be causes;
 4      I,  2 |          of the fact as well. Now "prior" and "better known" are
 5      I,  2 |         difference between what is prior and better known in the
 6      I,  2 |         order of being and what is prior and better known to man.
 7      I,  2 |        objects nearer to sense are prior and better known to man;
 8      I,  2 |      objects without qualification prior and better known are those
 9      I,  2 |           has no other proposition prior to it. A proposition is
10      I,  2 |           on demonstration has not prior knowledge; a man must believe
11      I,  3 |          ground that if behind the prior stands no primary, we could
12      I,  3 |          the posterior through the prior (wherein they are right,
13      I,  3 |         for since we must know the prior premisses from which the
14      I,  3 |         must be based on premisses prior to and better known than
15      I,  3 |      cannot simultaneously be both prior and posterior to one another:
16      I,  3 |         distinction between truths prior to us and truths without
17      I,  3 |       truths without qualification prior, i.e. the method by which
18      I,  4 |          attribute but triangle is prior. So whatever can be shown
19      I,  9 |          for his knowledge is from prior premisses when it derives
20      I,  19|           H and of no intermediate prior term, and suppose H similarly
21      I,  19|            be an intermediate term prior to B to which a is not attributable-G,
22      I,  19|            still be another term H prior to G, which is attributable
23      I,  19|           too either the series of prior terms to which a is not
24      I,  21|         term is denied of a term D prior to B, D will have to be
25      I,  21|         denied of yet another term prior to D, this term must be
26      I,  22|         not predicable of any term prior to the last subject of which
27      I,  22|           B), and of which no term prior to it is predicable.~The
28      I,  22|         there are other predicates prior to them predicable of those
29      I,  22|         antecedent (viz. premisses prior to it) and we neither know
30      I,  23|            a middle term or a term prior to B in which A does not
31      I,  24|          if of two propositions, a prior and a posterior, we have
32      I,  24|             we have a grasp of the prior, we have a kind of knowledge-a
33      I,  25|         and that middles which are prior are better known than such
34      I,  25|           is better known than and prior to A-E (in the first proof);
35      I,  25|   affirmative demonstration, being prior and better known and more
36      I,  25|         affirmative proposition is prior to and better known than
37      I,  25| affirmation explains denial and is prior to denial, just as being
38      I,  25|           denial, just as being is prior to not-being). It follows
39      I,  26|             in the order of being, prior to that denying A of C;
40      I,  26|            of C; for premisses are prior to the conclusion which
41      I,  26|     proceeds from better known and prior premisses, and while both
42      I,  26|           the source of the one is prior to that of the other. Therefore
43      I,  27|          is the more exact and the prior science.~A science such
44      I,  27|             is more exact than and prior to a science like harmonics,
45      I,  27|             is more exact than and prior to geometry, which requires
46     II,  3 |    demonstrable and will depend on prior premisses, and the regress
47     II,  12|           cause different from and prior to it? Now on this theory
48     II,  12|      occurrence was posterior, A’s prior; but C is the source of
49     II,  12|           will exist, it must be a prior truth to say that A will
50     II,  12|           will exist, C will exist prior to D, and if C will exist,
51     II,  12|           will exist, A will exist prior to it. And here too the
52     II,  16|            the other (for cause is prior to effect, and the earth’