foreform

Definitions

An early or previous form; protoform

Examples

“Mathematics in its foreform, as arithmetic, algebra, geometry, and the applications of the analytic method, as well as mathematics applied to matter⟳ and force⟳ or statics and dynamics, furnishes the peculiar study⟳ that gives to us, whether as children or as men, …”

“The most probable foreform must have⟳ been the Old Ir. Acc.Sg.f., that is *ayam (cf. Av. imí|m, aeümi).”

“The unconscious is full of artful subterfuge; it shapes our unplanned utterances with unforeseen forethoughts – or foreforms, if one permits such things, for the mind⟳ is a repository of hidden and ready formations, a dark library of grammars whose nature is to make⟳ possible the inspired and the rash: dreams, talk⟳, solemn unbreakable vows.”

“This interpretation shows that the thinking of being as beingness is not at all a beginning and so to speak⟳ does not arise⟳ from a “natural” representation of beings in general, but originates from the swaying of being that ever first inceptually as rising (φύσις) refused the grounding of its truth and along with it let⟳ ἀλήθεια become⟳ the presencing of what is constant (and thus let⟳ ἀλήθεια become⟳ the 'fore-form' of objectness).”

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