Associations to the word «Prolepsis»
Wiktionary
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.
Dictionary definition
PROLEPSIS, noun. Anticipating and answering objections in advance.
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.