PROLEPSIS

prolepsis

Noun

  1. The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
  2. The anticipation of an objection to an argument.
  3. A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
  4. A so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.
  5. 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.


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