The phrase "anticipated the idea" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone predicting or expecting a concept or thought before it is fully developed or presented.
Example: "The scientist anticipated the idea of climate change long before it became a mainstream concern."
Alternatives: "foreseen the concept" or "predicted the notion".
But some couples have long anticipated the idea.
"That is something we'd never have anticipated – the idea that you had carpenters from Glasgow, probably working in the shipyards,coming in with hammers and nails.
As anticipated, the idea was magnificent.
Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) anticipated the idea of natural selection.
Some of Koestler's late work is impressive: "The Sleepwalkers" is an account of the pioneers of modern astronomy that Thomas Kuhn credited with having anticipated the ideas in his classic, "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions".
Dinosaurs as Art But he couldn't anticipate the idea that they had large hips anchoring broad thighs, with feathers even, and with tails aloft not dragging on the ground -- so that most of his popular dinosaur paintings in the end seem scientifically outmoded.
10 It should be noted that Bloom's theory of mastery learning anticipates the idea of deep learner models by considering two principal student characteristics: cognitive entry behaviors and affective entry characteristics.
Physics, which deals with bodies and their movement, can explain no more than motion (its result is, in fact, a Prime Mover) and, unable to answer the fundamental ontological question about the origin of the world's being, it simply anticipates the idea of the Principle that metaphysics demonstrates (Ilāhiyyāt, I, 1, 6, 17 7, 6).
Such a theory is only to be found in Philo of Alexandria, whose reflections on the allegorical meaning of the Old Testament anticipate the idea that the literal meaning of a text may conceal a deeper non-literal meaning that may only be uncovered through systematic interpretatory work.
The work somewhat anticipates the ideas of the great thinkers of the century following his death by its emphasis on induction as a method of psychological and philosophical discovery.
One listing of events in New York described it as "frankly a girl show, but pepped up into something by the Surrealist madness of Salvador Dalí." Anticipating the ideas of some modern installation artists, Dalí incorporated not just performance but also sound into his pavilion.
