English Dictionary

prolepsis

IPA（発音記号）

/pɹoʊˈlɛpsɪs/

名詞

可算名詞 修辞法 不可算名詞

(rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it. / (logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

日本語の意味

修辞学では、出来事や現象を本来の時系列よりも前の時点に配置する手法、またはその状態を指す。 / 論理学では、議論に対する反論や異議を予め提示する行為を意味する。

In her lecture, she explained how prolepsis can create dramatic irony by assigning future events to an earlier moment.

講義で彼女は、未来の出来事を実際より前の時期に割り当てる先取り表現がどのように劇的な皮肉を生むかを説明した。

意味（1）

(rhetoric) The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.

意味（2）

(logic) The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

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

意味（3）

(grammar, rhetoric) A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.

意味（4）

(philosophy, epistemology) 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.

意味（5）

(botany) 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.

意味（6）

(authorship) The practice of placing information about the ending of a story near the beginning, as a literary device.

prolepses （ plural ）