====== ANTE: Temporal Succession ======

**Definition**: In the case of ''t1'' and ''t2'' being temporal moments or periods (or, in technical terms, ''t1, t2 ∈ t''), the expression ''(t1 ANTE t2)'' states that ''t1'' lies temporally before ''t2'' or is preceding ''t2''.

The relation ''ANTE'' is extended to sort ''si'' by the definition that ''(x ANTE y)'' for ''x, y ∈ si'' holds if and only if ''(tx ANTE ty)'' is true for the moments or periods ''tx, ty ∈ t'' assigned to the situations ''x'' and ''y''. The analogue holds, if only one argument of ''ANTE'' is a situation. The relation ''ANTE'' is transitive, not reflexive and asymmetric.

**Examples**: 
   The contracts doubled the company revenue.

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