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。
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Often, the target is created when the consolidation pattern is first applied so that no access controls preexist and possibly need to be defined.
通常在首次应用整合模式时创建目标，这样不存在任何访问控制，所以可能需要对其进行定义。
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Throughout the classical period they believed that man does not create the mathematical facts; they preexist. He is limited to ascertaining and recording them.