precondition has definitions from the fields of sociology,logic
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[ verb ] put into the required condition beforehand

Used in print

(Paul Ramsey, War and the Christian Conscience. Durham,...)

It is a proposal that justice now be served by means other_than those that have ever preconditioned the search for it , or preconditioned more positive means for attaining it , in_the_past .

It is a proposal that justice now be served by means other_than those that have ever preconditioned the search for it , or preconditioned more positive means for attaining it , in_the_past .

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[ noun ] an assumption that is taken for granted

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[ noun ] (logic) an assumption on which rests the validity or effect of something else
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[ noun ] (sociology) a condition that is a prerequisite

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prerequisite

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