Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a metalepsis or participation; translative.
- Transverse: as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.
- In chem., pertaining to, resulting from, or characterized by metalepsy, or the substitution of one substance for another which has been displaced.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.
- adjective Transverse.
- adjective (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
metalepsis .
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Examples
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But even to call this reversal a metaleptic metonymy would be claiming to know more than one can about the radically discontinuous nature of this reversal.
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I think one of the insights of recent works on the philosophy of recognition (Patchen Markell, for instance) is that we only know who we are after the fact - self-fashioning through texts is part of the negotiation of our identity with other that we tell ourselves is proleptic but is ultimately always a construal of the past (metaleptic). permalink
Savage Minds 2010
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Calcagno explains that Stein’s objection with Heidegger’s use of the term Dasein human being, humankind, being-in-the-world is that he associates the essence of being as existence, a definition formerly ascribed to God, thereby destroying the metaleptic reality.
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Calcagno explains that Stein’s objection with Heidegger’s use of the term Dasein human being, humankind, being-in-the-world is that he associates the essence of being as existence, a definition formerly ascribed to God, thereby destroying the metaleptic reality.
Archive 2009-05-01 enowning 2009
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