What's the difference between foresee and precognition?

Foresee


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow.
  • (v. t.) To provide.
  • (v. i.) To have or exercise foresight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It had been drawn up following “an extensive consultation process” and schools were “reasonably not expecting any changes in the foreseeable future”.
  • (2) And an increasing number of critics say that no nuclear weapon would be a credible deterrent in any counter-terrorist operation British forces will be engaged in for the foreseeable future.
  • (3) Only in the presence of concentric hypertrophy is it possible to foresee the improvement of LV function; LV hypertrophy can be also reduced in concentric hypertrophy, but in the short term the reduction is too small to assume pathophysiologic significance.
  • (4) Mexico today, and for the foreseeable future, remains a mecca for organised crime.
  • (5) We foresee a markedly expanded role for this technique in major pulmonary resections, esophageal procedures, and cardiac surgery in the near future.
  • (6) But it is easier to foresee scenarios in which Italian growth and inflation are even weaker than now projected, and debt ratios keep rising.
  • (7) What he didn’t foresee was that getting to know people more intimately would result in his using portraits – more than 130 so far – to raise awareness of the plight of chronic homelessness generally or that he would become passionately vocal about what has been an entrenched issue for a number of US cities for decades.
  • (8) Even the gloomiest of predictions about the British exit from the EU do not foresee the collapse of the close cultural ties or military alliance between Washington and London.
  • (9) The rope suddenly breaks in Götterdämmerung, and that's the end of their role – they can no longer foresee the future because the structured and predictable world of the gods is about to be replaced by the chaos of human existence.
  • (10) Undoubtedly, another challenge to the specialty, currently and in the foreseeable future, is the debate over animal rights which began to ferment in the late 1970's, after lying relatively dorment since the 1950's.
  • (11) Given that private ownership of health care facilities and services is likely to continue for the foreseeable future, central control of the funding of health care will make it possible to regulate the private sector, and bring it into a national health plan to provide health care for all.
  • (12) The diagnostic workup for basilar impression foresees X-rays, magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography.
  • (13) For the foreseeable future coal is the foundation of prosperity,” Abbott said late last year.
  • (14) If Americans themselves don’t know what their president is planning to do, how can the Chinese know?” Speaking in Taipei, the Taiwan capital, on Tuesday Tsai said that despite her surprise conversation with Trump she did not foresee “major policy shifts in the near future because we all see the value of stability in the region”.
  • (15) The authors describe a mathematical model which allows to foresee glycosylated hemoglobin variability as a result of alterations of blood glucose equilibrium.
  • (16) If at 14 I could foresee my future and this kind of pressure – I think it would be hard for me [to commit to it].” In the documentary, he admits to moments where he has wept and thought he couldn’t go on.
  • (17) Speaking in confidence, three-quarters of these officials admitted that – despite what they say publicly – they could not foresee a return to growth in the near future.
  • (18) Complete control of epidermal cancer is now a foreseeable reality.
  • (19) "We need accommodative monetary policy for the foreseeable future," he said.
  • (20) The young age structure means that the population will continue to increase for the foreseeable future.

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.