(n.) Knowledge of a thing before it happens, or of whatever is to happen; prescience.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infant survival may depend on foreknowledge of the pathology and prompt, directed efforts at bypassing the airway obstruction.
(2) Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill's The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen For a story conceived in 1985, Fashion Beast both foreshadows later Moore works and seems eerily as if it were written with foreknowledge of what would transpire in the world in the intervening years.
(3) However, in a temporal forced choice experiment with foreknowledge of target position the difference between children and adults was reduced to 0.1 log units.
(4) The build-up to the killing and the victims' foreknowledge of it was captured in a letter the prosecution said was sent to Ntakirutimana by a group of Adventist pastors.
(5) However, it is inevitable that this is done with some foreknowledge; at least it is known that the test smears contain one or more special cases.
(6) Wallau had expressed the view that, even if Ali had foreknowledge of how boxing would affect his physical condition, “If he had it to do all over, he’d live his life the same way.
(7) The data indicate that a single pretreatment Widal test in suspected enteric fever cases is of definite diagnostic value, but that the results must be interpreted with caution and foreknowledge of the test's shortcomings and limitations.
(8) Effective prescribing of anticonvulsants requires foreknowledge of baseline pharmacokinetic data.
(9) The simplified description of the phenomena involved in MR which follows is intended to be comprehensive and does not require foreknowledge of classical physics, quantum mechanics, fluency with mathematical formulae or an understanding of image reconstruction.
(10) Once I would have criticised such a sentiment severely, but of certain parts of life there can be no foreknowledge.
(11) This foreknowledge allowed the vast majority of the side-chain resonances to be discerned in J-correlated spectra.
(12) This loss was maintained in a spatial forced choice experiment without foreknowledge of target location.
(13) These principles are: (1) that outcome foreknowledge should be disclosed and discussed; (2) that key data in the study should be well understood to include what influences it and its inherent variability; and (3) that detailed exposure characterization, whether it be occupational or personal risk factors, should be an integral part of all studies.
(14) Supporters of the drive towards early diagnosis say foreknowledge that someone may develop dementia can let them draw up instructions for their future care, put their financial affairs in order and make lifestyle changes, such as eating healthily and taking more exercise, that will slow the disease's progress.
(15) Foreknowledge of the presence of the aneurysm proved to be life saving when an acute deterioration required emergency surgery.
(16) Foreknowledge of the previous sterilization resulted in delay of surgical management.
(17) Excision of such an hourglass tumor without foreknowledge of such extension may lead to serious spinal cord complications.
(18) This method demonstrates significant generality and predictive power without requiring foreknowledge of any native structural details.
(19) Foreknowledge of disease may lead to better decision making about life-style or reproduction, but depression or suicide may also result.
(20) Foreknowledge of location of the test line within the matrix improved the threshold further, even if the whole matrix was displaced to different retinal positions.
Precognition
Definition:
(n.) Previous cognition.
(n.) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
Example Sentences:
(1) A pursuit tracking task was carried out to investigate the effects of combinations of sine waves on the development of precognitive mode, which is defined as open-loop mode with little feedback.
(2) It was not surprising, therefore, that when Bem last year published the results of a series of nine experiments appearing to suggest that precognition – or the ability to "feel the future" – is real, the story received a great deal of coverage from mainstream science media around the world.
(3) Absorption correlated positively with dream recall, ability to dream on a chosen topic, reports of conflict resolution in dreams, creative ideas occurring in dreams, amount of color in dreams, pleasantness of dreams, bizarreness of dreams, flying dreams and precognitive dreams.
(4) Cypriot halloumi + Shed Seven + burlesque.” In the days approaching The Thick of It screening I smugly congratulated myself on my precognitive programming genius.
(5) On this basis a hypothesis is elaborated meaning that autistic people would have the instinctive precognition of the creatures of the same species fulfilled not by such creatures (imprinting), but by partial aspects of them, regarding sensory stimuli that they produce.
(6) Reporters of out-of-body experiences showed significantly greater belief in precognition, psi, spiritualism, and witchcraft than did nonreporters.
(7) Speed of behavior apparently limits certain intellectual components such as fluid intelligence and the important precognitive capacity of attention.
(8) Thus, precognition is a sort of psychic radar, warning an individual of impending danger; dreams are a safety valve for potentially psycholytic repressions; and faith is an important element in the healing process.
(9) His expertise, fittingly, is what can’t be seen – sound, yes, but also everything else that sound is to the human mind: the way we orient ourselves in relation to spaces, to time, to each other; the way we communicate when language fails; the way our ears know, precognitively, when the dark room has someone lurking in it or when a stranger will be kind.
(10) For subjects as a whole, the strongest correlates were the frequency of dreams which they believed to be precognitive and out-of-body dreams.