foreform

foreform

English

Alternative forms

• fore-form

Etymology

From fore- +‎ form.

Noun

foreform (plural foreforms)

1. An early or previous form; protoform
   • 1916, The Texas Mathematics Teachers' Bulletin - Volumes 1-5:

     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, [...]

   • 1982, Georg Morgenstierne, ‎Jacques Duchesne-Guillemin, Monumentum Georg Morgenstierne - Volume 2:

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

   • 2007, David Arnold, Poetry and Language Writing: Objective and Surreal:

     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.

   • 2016, Martin Heidegger, Mindfulness:

     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).

Related terms

• urform

Verb

foreform (third-person singular simple present foreforms, present participle foreforming, simple past and past participle foreformed)

1. (transitive) To form beforehand or in advance; prepare