prolepsis

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.
2. isim The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

   “Prolepsis makes objections; then replies; And wisely thus anticipates surprise.”

3. isim A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
4. isim A so-called "preconception", i.e., a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.

   “Point (1) seems to imply that one may have a false judgement because of a mismatch between different criteria for truth. For example, my sensation is paired with a prolepsis of a horse, therefore I make an assertion that ‘there is a horse’, which upon further inspection may turn out to be a cow.”

5. isim 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.
6. isim The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.