prejacent adjective 3noun 2forms 1 adjective3 •Existing previously, preexistent.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. — 1631 •Laid out earlier, prior.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. — 2013 •(no longer used) Before; situated in front. noun2 •A proposition laid out previously; a proposition from which another proposition is inferred.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’ — 1979 •The propositional content with which a scope-taking operator (such as a modal, a focus particle like only, or an exhaustivity operator) combines. formsprejacents
