1. It is antecedently probable that a writer so well informed as Josephus, must have been well acquainted too with the doctrine and the history of Jesus Christ.

2. What we do is to select options from an antecedently specified set.

3. According to the standard seventeenth-century view, there exist, independently of and antecedently to our perception of them, material bodies.

4. Thus, the science of ethics is not normative: it does not deal with laws existing antecedently to human actions, and which these ought to obey.

5. The classical utopian novels, typically Utopia by Thomas More, are generally ideological novels with a theme put antecedently .

6. Neither of these strategies is apt to appeal to anyone not antecedently committed to functionalism.