Quotes About Posterior

He then defines for them its medial (closer to the midline), lateral (further from the midline), superior and inferior (or cranial and caudal), anterior, and posterior (or ventral and dorsal) aspects. Anything nearer to the center or closer to the point of attachment is "proximal" (so the knee is proximal to the ankle), while things further out are "distal" (the ankle being distal to the knee). They need this basic vocabulary to begin.

In the posteriors of this day, which the rude multitude call the afternoon.

Her smile turned wicked. "And I'm not a silly girl to be blinded by a tidy posterior and expansive landholdings." Tidy posterior and expansive landholdings? Was that the Dark Ages equivalent of a tight ass and a lot of money?

Epistemic competence might be posterior to knowledge conceptually, however, while still prior metaphysically.

Bayesian statistics?

Nice rear assembly. I thought. I felt a mild twinge of guilt, considering Abigail's plight, but I couldn't help evaluating Tom's retreating posterior, and putting it in terms of canine structure was second nature.

Before, prior to. There is no difference between these two except length and a certain affectedness on the part of 'prior to.' To paraphrase Bernstein, if you would use 'posterior to' instead of 'after,' then by all means use 'prior to' instead of 'before.

Love is anterior to life, posterior to death, initial of creation, and the Exponent of earth.

The search for the conditions of possibility is in principle posterior to an actual experience, and from this it follows that even if subsequently one determines rigorously the sine qua non of that experience, it can never be washed of the original stain of having been discovered post festum nor ever become what positively founds that experience.