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Preconceive vs Foreconceive - What's the difference?

preconceive | foreconceive |

Foreconceive is a synonym of preconceive.



As verbs the difference between preconceive and foreconceive

is that preconceive is to conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of while foreconceive is to conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.

preconceive

English

Verb

(preconceiv)
  • To conceive, or form an opinion of, beforehand; to form a previous notion or idea of.

    • Synonyms

    * (l) (Webster 1913)

    foreconceive

    English

    Verb

    (foreconceiv)
  • To conceive or imagine beforehand; preconceive.
  • *, II.17:
  • *:I found my selfe glutted and ful of drink by the overmuch swilling that my imagination had fore-conceived .
  • *2007 , Christopher D. Morris, The Figure of the Road :
    • To imagine the new is to foreconceive , as in the Heideggerian Vorlage, which can only be expressed in language.
  • *2012 , Irene E. Harvey, Labyrinths of Exemplarity: At the Limits of Deconstruction :
    • 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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