A philosophical concept used in ancient epistemology to indicate a so-called "preconception", i.e. a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world
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
The representation of something which has occurred before its time. I'm a dead man
A grammatical construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond. That noise, I just heard it again
() From Latin prolepsis, from Ancient Greek πρόληψις (prolepsis, “preconception, anticipation”), from προλαμβάνω (prolambano, “take beforehand, anticipate”)