单词preexist
v.: 先(存)在;先于…而存在网络: 先前存在;先于…存在
先前存在
v.predateprecedeantecedego beforeprelude
But the thought is always prior to the fact; all the facts of history preexist in the mind as laws.
但思想始终先于事实而存在,所有的历史事实都以法则的方式预先存在于心灵中。