What is "prolepsis"

Prolepsis \Pro*lep"sis\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, from ? to take beforehand; ? before + ? to take.]

1. (Rhet.)

   1. A figure by which objections are anticipated or prevented.
      --Abp. Bramhall.

   2. A necessary truth or assumption; a first or assumed principle.

2. (Chron.) An error in chronology, consisting in an event being dated before the actual time.

3. (Gram.) The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.

1570s, "the taking of something anticipated as already done or existing," from Latin prolepsis, from Greek prolepsis "an anticipating," literally "a taking beforehand," from prolambanein "to take before," from pro- "before" (see pro-) + lambanein "to take" (see analemma). Related: Proleptic; proleptical; proleptically.

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

1. n. anticipating and answering objections in advance

2. [also: prolepses (pl)]

Prolepsis may refer to:

• Prolepsis (album), by Arrogance
• Prolepsis (rhetoric), a figure of speech in which the speaker raises an objection and then immediately answers it
• Cataphora, using an expression or word that co-refers with a later expression in the discourse
• Flashforward, in storytelling, an interjected scene that represent events in the future
• One of the three criteria of truth in Epicureanism

Prolepsis is the second album by the North Carolina band Arrogance, released in 1975 (see 1975 in music).