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‖ ante rem Philos.|ˈæntiː rɛm|
[med.L. (Albertus Magnus), ‘before the thing’.]
Used as phr. and also attrib. Prior to the existence of a particular or physical thing; spec. of the philosophical theory (a form of realism 1) which holds that the universal is logically prior to, i.e. capable of existing independently of, the particular; also, of the universal so regarded.
c1873W. James in R. B. Perry Tht. & Char. W. James (1935) I. 499 Our notion of a future time with its material content forms a sort of matrix ante rem into which in its time the res fits. 1904― Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 446 Like empiricism, it is individualistic and phenomenalistic; it places truth in rebus, and not ante rem. 1927C. R. S. Harris Duns Scotus I. vi. 215 The distinction of the threefold aspect of the universal ante rem, in re, and post rem forms the starting-point of the epistemological theory of Scotus no less than that of Albert or Aquinas. 1953H. H. Price Thinking & Exper. ix. 266 Nothing in this world is a perfect instance of circularity, according to the Ante Rem theory. Ibid. x. 302 One might deny that there are subsistent and extra-mental universals, whether of the Ante rem or In re variety. |