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Prolepsis
Prolepsis meaning
The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. | The anticipation of an objection to an argument. | A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.
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An example of prolepsis is the word "man" because every person has a preconceived notion of what a man is.
Epistemology Epicurean epistemology has three criteria of truth : sensations (aisthêsis), preconceptions (prolepsis), and feelings (pathê).
Heinrich Ritter, Alexander James William Morrison, (1846), The History of Ancient Philosophy, Volume 4, page 207 Epictetus teaches that the preconceptions ( prolepsis ) of good and evil are common to all.