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  • 81Possessive antecedent — In English grammar, a pronoun has a possessive antecedent if its antecedent (the noun that it refers to) appears in a possessive case; for example, in the following sentence, Winston Churchill is a possessive antecedent, serving as it does as the …

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  • 82Generic antecedent — Generic antecedents are representatives of classes, indicated by a reference in ordinary language (most often a pronoun), where gender is typically unknown or irrelevant. [Mark Balhorn, [http://eng.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/2/79 The… …

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  • 83Denying the antecedent — Denying the antecedent, sometimes also called inverse error, is a formal fallacy, committed by reasoning in the form: If P, then Q. Not P. Therefore, not Q. Arguments of this form are invalid. Informally, this means that arguments of this form do …

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  • 84Last antecedent rule — The last antecedent rule is a doctrine of interpretation of a statute, by which Referential and qualifying phrases, where no contrary intention appears, refer solely to the last antecedent. [ [http://adamsdrafting.com/downloads/g and m 082807.pdf …

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  • 85Plasma thromboplastin antecedent — Bänder /Oberflächenmodell nach PDB  …

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  • 86last antecedent rule — n: a doctrine in the interpretation of statutes: qualifying words or phrases refer only to the last antecedent word or phrase unless the context or entire act clearly requires otherwise – called also last antecedent doctrine; Merriam Webster’s… …

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  • 87Plasma Thromboplastin Antecedent — Bänder /Oberflächenmodell nach PDB  …

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  • 88last antecedent — For the purposes of the rule of construction of a statute that qualifying words, phrases and clauses are ordinarily confined to the last antecedent:–the last words which can be made an antecedent without impairing the meaning of the sentence.… …

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  • 89fallacy of the antecedent — the logical fallacy of denying the antecedent : denial of the antecedent …

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  • 90judicial antecedent — index precedent Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …

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