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Posteriority

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POSTERIORITY, rights. Being or, coming after. It is a word of comparison, the correlative of which is priority; as, when a man holds lands from two landlords, he holds from his ancient landlord by priority and from the other by posteriority. 2 Inst. 392.
     2. These terms, priority and posteriority, are also used in cases of liens the first are prior liens, and are to be paid in the first place; the last are posterior liens, and are not entitled to payment until the former have been satisfied.



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Theologians, philosophers and scientists perceive and describe an aspect of this integral, systemic regularity in terms of a certain linear spatio-temporal order of priority and posteriority seen to be governing things and events in nature, some of which they posit as antecedent 'causes' ('substrate', 'substratum') for others, the consequent 'effects', whereas in reality, causal efficacy lies with God alone.
Atomism versus hylomorphism in the kalam of al-Fakhr al-Din al-Razi: ... by Setia, 'Adi / Islam & Science
And included in the totality of what is other than God are place and time, for place refers to open space (al-fada), spatial domain (al-hayyiz) and the extended void (al-faragh al-mumtadd), whereas time refers to the duration (al-muddah) by virtue of which priority (al-qabliyyah) and posteriority (al-ba diyyah) occur.
Fakhr al-Din al-Razi on physics and the nature of the physical world: ... by Setia, Adi / Islam & Science
62) Scientists perceive and describe an aspect of this integral system in terms of a certain linear spatio-temporal order of priority and posteriority governing things and events in nature, some of which they posit as antecedent 'causes' for others, the consequent 'effects', whereas in reality causal efficacy lies with God alone.
Al-Attas' philosophy of science an extended outline by Setia, 'Adi / Islam & Science
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