👉 In mathematics and logic, a "prefiguring" is an operation that is performed before or after another operation. In other words, it's an action that precedes or follows a previous step in some process. For example: 1. Prefiguring (pre-notation): A prefiguring symbol, such as ∨ (AND) or ∧ (OR), has the property of being a binary operator, meaning it takes two operands and returns one. For instance, if we have an