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The term ex-ante (sometimes written ex ante or exante) is a New Latin phrase meaning "before the event". [1] In economics, ex-ante or notional demand refers to the desire for goods and services that is not backed by the ability to pay for those goods and services. This is also termed as 'wants of people'.
The ante-in antecedent means 'before; in front of'. Thus, when a pro-form precedes its antecedent, the antecedent is not literally an antecedent, but rather it is a postcedent, post-meaning 'after; behind'. The following examples, wherein the pro-forms are bolded and their postcedents are underlined, illustrate this distinction:
Postdiction involves explanation after the fact. [1] In skepticism, it is considered an effect of hindsight bias that explains claimed predictions of significant events such as plane crashes and natural disasters. In religious contexts, theologians frequently refer to postdiction using the Latin term vaticinium ex eventu (foretelling after the ...
An event study is a statistical method to assess the impact of an event (also referred to as a "treatment"). [1] Early prominent uses of event studies occurred in the field of finance. [1] For example, the announcement of a merger between two business entities can be analyzed to see whether investors believe the merger will create or destroy value.
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Vaticinium ex eventu (Classical Latin: [wäːt̪ɪˈkɪnɪ.ʊ̃ˑ ɛks eːˈwɛn̪t̪uː], "prophecy from the event") or post eventum ("after the event") is a technical theological or historiographical term referring to a prophecy written after the author already had information about the events being "foretold". The text is written so as to ...
A data event is a relevant state transition defined in an event schema. [1] Typically, event schemata are described by pre- and post condition for a single or a set of data items . In contrast to ECA ( Event condition action ), which considers an event to be a signal, the data event not only refers to the change (signal), but describes specific ...
A terminus post quem ('limit after which', sometimes abbreviated TPQ) and terminus ante quem ('limit before which', abbreviated TAQ) specify the known limits of dating for events or items. [1] [2] [3] A terminus post quem is the earliest date the event may have happened or the item was in existence, and a terminus ante quem is the latest.