Prejacent

Quick meaning: Prejacent is an adjective meaning Existing previously, preexistent.

Meaning

Existing previously, preexistent.

More Meanings

1. (logic, of a proposition) Laid out earlier, prior.
2. (philosophy, logic, linguistics) A proposition laid out previously; a proposition from which another proposition is inferred.
3. (archaic, now rare) Before; situated in front.

Example Sentences

So, every exception set S that is not a subset of C(={b}) makes the prejacent statement false, i.e. makes it so that some (NPᵂ–S) (VPᵂ)=0.

Again, to be created from nothing is not to have been formed from prejacent matter (although in another sense, the newly created body is made from matter).

The subject of the prejacent and its exclusive must be one and the same (I grant that), but the subject of the prejacent ‘every man is a man’ is just ‘man’

The Platonickes and Stoicks acknowledged a divine understandinge to have made the world, but out of prejacent matter, which they conccaved to be eternall, and to acknowledge no maker.

Word Forms

• prejacents

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include preexistent, pre-existent, preexisting, precedaneous, prior, precedent.

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