Associations to the word «Prolepsis»

PROLEPSIS, noun. (rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.

PROLEPSIS, noun. (logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

PROLEPSIS, noun. (grammar) (rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.

PROLEPSIS, noun. (philosophy) (epistemology) A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.

PROLEPSIS, noun. (botany) Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.

PROLEPSIS, noun. Anticipating and answering objections in advance.