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Subject:Re: More on the topic of words . . .proleptic From:Fred M Jacobson <fred -at- BOOLE -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 3 Feb 1994 14:47:14 PST
Doug Montalbano write re "proactive":
> There already is a word for this, albeit a somewhat unused (I'd hate to say
> obscure) one: proleptic
Doug-
You were a debater in school, right? Prolepsis is "the anticipation
or answering of an objection or argument before one's opponent has put
it forward," according to my handy dictionary.
-Fred
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