prolepsis

The assignment of something to a period of time that precedes it.

The anticipation of an objection to an argument.

Prolepsis makes objections; then replies; And wisely thus anticipates surprise.

A construction that consists of placing an element in a syntactic unit before that to which it would logically correspond.

A so-called "preconception", i.e., a pre-theoretical notion which can lead to true knowledge of the world.

Point (1) seems to imply that one may have a false judgement because of a mismatch between different criteria for truth. For example, my sensation is paired with a prolepsis of a horse, therefore I make an assertion that ‘there is a horse’, which upon further inspection may turn out to be a cow.

Growth in which lateral branches develop from a lateral meristem, after the formation of a bud or following a period of dormancy, when the lateral meristem is split from a terminal meristem.