Associations to the word «Prolegomenon»

Wiktionary

PROLEGOMENON, noun. (usually in the plural) A prefatory discussion; a formal essay or critical discussion serving to introduce and interpret an extended work.

Dictionary definition

PROLEGOMENON, noun. A preliminary discussion inserted at the beginning of a book or treatise.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope