different between consequence vs sequent

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French consequence , from Latin consequentia.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?kw?ns/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?ns?kw?ns/, /?k?ns?kw?ns/

Noun

consequence (plural consequences)

1. That which follows something on which it depends; that which is produced by a cause.
2. A result of actions, especially if such a result is unwanted or unpleasant.
3. A proposition collected from the agreement of other previous propositions; any conclusion which results from reason or argument; inference.
4. Chain of causes and effects; consecution.
5. Importance with respect to what comes after.
6. The power to influence or produce an effect.
7. (especially when preceded by "of") Importance, value, or influence.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "consequence": social, legal, environmental, political, economic, personal, cultural, moral, unintended, undesirable, likely, probable, necessary, logical, natural, important, significant, bad, disastrous, devastating, fatal, catastrophic, harmful.

Synonyms

• aftercome
• distinction
• implication
• moment
• rank
• repercussion
• value

Related terms

Translations

See also

• causality
• effect
• impact

Verb

consequence (third-person singular simple present consequences, present participle consequencing, simple past and past participle consequenced)

1. (transitive) To threaten or punish (a child, etc.) with specific consequences for misbehaviour.
   • 1998, Terry M. Levy, Michael Orlans, Attachment, trauma, and healing

     The goal of consequencing is to teach the child a lesson that leads to positive choices and behaviors. The goal of punishment is to inflict pain and seek revenge. Angry parenting is punitive and ineffectual.

References

Further reading

• consequence in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• consequence in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• consequence at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French sequent, itself borrowed from Latin sequentem, present participle of sequi (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?si?kw?nt/

Adjective

sequent (comparative more sequent, superlative most sequent)

1. (obsolete) That comes after in time or order; subsequent.
   • 1860, James Thomson (B.V.), Two Sonnets:

     Why are your songs all wild and bitter sad

     As funeral dirges with the orphans' cries?

     Each night since first the world was made hath had

     A sequent day to laugh it down the skies.

2. (now rare) That follows on as a result, conclusion etc.; consequent to, on, upon.
   • 1897, Henry James, What Maisie Knew:

     Maisie found herself clutched to her mother's breast and passionately sobbed and shrieked over, made the subject of a demonstration evidently sequent to some sharp passage just enacted.

3. Recurring in succession or as a series; successive, consecutive.

Related terms

• sequence

Translations

Noun

sequent (plural sequents)

1. Something that follows in a given sequence.
   • 1946, Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy, I.30:

     The One is somewhat shadowy. It is sometimes called God, sometimes the Good; it transcends Being, which is the first sequent upon the One.

2. (logic) A disjunctive set of logical formulae which is partitioned into two subsets; the first subset, called the antecedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as false, and the second subset, called the succedent, consists of formulae which are valuated as true. (The set is written without set brackets and the separation between the two subsets is denoted by a turnstile symbol, which may be read "give(s)".)

   A sequent ${\displaystyle a,b\vdash c,d}$ could be interpreted to correspond to an Existential Graph, whose expression in Existential Graph Interchange Format would be
   ~[(a) (b) ~[(c)] ~[(d)]], which in ordinary language could be expressed as "a and b give c or d".

3. (obsolete) A follower.
4. (mathematics) A sequential calculus

Derived terms

• hypersequent
• sequent calculus

Translations

Related terms

References

Further reading

• sequent in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• sequent in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.