prescience
21prescience — See: prescient …
22prescience — pre•science [[t]ˈprɛʃ əns, i əns, ˈpri ʃəns, ʃi əns[/t]] n. knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight • Etymology: 1325–75; ME < LL praescientia. See pre , science pre′scient, adj. pre′scient•ly, adv …
23prescience — /ˈprɛsiəns / (say preseeuhns) noun knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight. {Middle English, from Late Latin praescientia, from Latin praesciens, present participle, knowing before} –prescient, adjective… …
24prescience — n. foreknowledge; foresight. ♦ prescient, a …
25prescience — noun the power to foresee the future • Syn: ↑prevision • Derivationally related forms: ↑prescient • Hypernyms: ↑capacity, ↑mental ability …
26prescience, divine — Предвидение божественное …
27Global Prescience — Looking for a lesson in humility? Stand at a major historical marker, and try drawing a perfectly reasonable, prudent conclusion about where that marker is pointing. Believe me, if you read about a 15th century traveler saying, I have to get back …
28Fallacy of prescience — See the term similar in meaning to prescience , precognition. A term used by Smith, DeShaye and Stoicheff to describe an erroneous exploratory research technique in which the experimental scaffolding embeds assumptions about what will be… …
29prescient — prescience, prescient The usual pronunciations are pres i ǝns and pres i ǝnt, with the first and second syllables both short …
30Boethius: from antiquity to the Middle Ages — John Marenbon Boethius is a difficult figure to place in the history of philosophy. Considered just in himself, he clearly belongs to the world of late antiquity. Born in 480, at a time when Italy was ruled by the Ostrogoths under their king,… …
