Meaning of foreconceive | Babel Free

Definitions

To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.

transitive

Examples

“I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived.”

“To imagine the new is to foreconceive, as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.”

“Thus one ought to “color”—foreconceive or frame—the other. The more familiar will be thought to be an example, Aristotle says, yet he also defines the example as this total relation of incompleteness: part to part (without wholes).”

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