prolepses in English
noun
1
the anticipation and answering of possible objections in rhetorical speech.
Drexler's book Engines of Creation is an extraordinary exercise in prolepsis : he meticulously refutes every technical objection he can anticipate.
2
the representation of a thing as existing before it actually does or did so, as in he was a dead man when he entered.
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