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• Cognition therefore entails recollection and the ideas of things with which the mind thinks are therefore anticipations - Cudworth adopts the Stoic term prolepsis to...
• It is from perception that we draw our general ideas by a kind of prolepsis (πρόληψις) an anticipation or laying hold by reason of that which is implied in sensation.
• This is a prolepsis; for the battle was fought in 1640.
• In the word Succoth, as Moses shortly afterwards shows, there is a prolepsis.