What's the difference between omniscience and prescience?

Omniscience


Definition:

  • (n.) The quality or state of being omniscient; -- an attribute peculiar to God.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In this paper the concept of the personal myth was expanded to include similar defensive constellations originating from within the grandiose self, built around omnipotent and omniscient fantasies and occurring in character formations with pregenital, narcissistic pathology.
  • (2) I quote H. KOHUT's "one's empathy for one-self" which means that it can be an important experience (either in childhood or in therapy) to perceive that neither parents nor therapists are omniscient so that their empathy must be counter-balanced by "one's empathy for one-self".
  • (3) Privacy as a check on government power represents a constitutional judgment that a limited government must have limited power to inspect our daily lives, and that an omniscient government is too powerful for mere rules to restrain.
  • (4) Instead of maids and chauffeurs we would have self-driving cars, housecleaning robots and clever, omniscient apps that can monitor, inform and nudge us in real time.
  • (5) We believe another cycle of hopeful expectance in the quest for psychiatric omniscience and the following period of disillusionment can be avoided.
  • (6) Between August 1978 and September 1984, 440 patients were implanted with the Omniscience cardiac valve at three North American medical centers (210 aortic, AVR; 165 mitral, MVR; and 65 double valve replacements).
  • (7) When he arrived in March 2002, Herrington despaired to see that military and civilian interrogators had no idea who their new charges were, reversing the desired dynamic of the “omniscient” interrogator.
  • (8) The clinical results and hemodynamics were evaluated in 100 cases of aortic valve replacement, using the Omniscience valve, in the period December 1980 through 1984.
  • (9) False omniscience is a habit that makes people as politically destructive as they are personally annoying, and plenty of people made pronouncements about what was going to happen and what would never happen at Standing Rock that turned out to be wrong.
  • (10) The physicist's remarks draw a stark line between the use of God as a metaphor and the belief in an omniscient creator whose hands guide the workings of the cosmos.
  • (11) The Omniscience prosthesis was replaced with a 19-mm St. Jude Medical prosthesis, and the patient's postoperative course has been uneventful.
  • (12) Our studies on mitral Omniscience valves demonstrated that because anatomic and surgical variations, the anterior orientation was more forgiving than the posterior orientation, resulting in lower thrombotic complications (0.5% versus 3.3% patient-year).
  • (13) From 1980 to 1985, 154 Omniscience valve prostheses were implanted in 132 patients (mitral in 72, aortic in 33, and both in 27), 81 women and 51 men, aged 22 to 72 years.
  • (14) The new gods were digital, omniscient, swooping through the stratosphere, recording anyone and anything they chose.
  • (15) Cumulative follow-up was 88 years (mean 1.7 years) for the Björk-Shiley, 229 years (mean 1.5 years) for the Medtronic-Hall, and 223 years (mean 3.3 years) for the Omniscience group.
  • (16) Isis under airstrikes – a guide in maps Read more The move marked a decisive shift away from putting all the organisation’s efforts into holding on to lands it had conquered in Syria and Iraq – a cause it acknowledged could not prevail against 14 different air forces and the omniscient eavesdropping powers of its foes.
  • (17) This 57-year-old female of MS had been treated by MVR with a 25 mm Omniscience valve on October 26, 1983.
  • (18) Between June, 1980, and September, 1983, 70 patients received the Omniscience prosthesis, 159 patients the Medtronic-Hall valve, and 60 patients the convexo-concave 70 degree Björk-Shiley prosthesis.
  • (19) The prosthetic valves used were St Jude Medical (SJM), Starr-Edwards ball (S-E), monostrut Björk-Shiley (mB-S), Omniscience (OS), Omnicarbon (OC), Carpentier-Edwards Supra-annular (C-Es) and Carpentier Edwards Pericardial (C-Ep) whose tissue annulus diameter was 27 mm.
  • (20) The pressure gradients of St. Jude Medical (SJM) valve (11 cases), Björk-Shiley (B-S) valve (7 cases), Lillehei-Kaster (L-K) valve (13 cases) and Omniscience (O-S) valve (33 cases) was evaluated to compare the hemodynamic characteristics in the long term follow-up periods.

Prescience


Definition:

  • (n.) Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I didn’t know that Rachel’s early writing - before she even thought of travelling to the Middle East, from her days as a schoolgirl, through college, to life working at a mental-health centre in her home town of Olympia, Washington - would be similarly fascinating, and contain such elements of chilling prescience.
  • (2) Arguments of considerable ferocity will arise as to whether a new piece of equipment would have been bought anyway with the risk that the government ends up funnelling billions of dollars to companies to subsidise their profits without achieving any real additional cuts to emissions,” you told parliament, with remarkable prescience.
  • (3) I cracked a few jokes because I thought we had been through such a terrible event we need to laugh.” With grim prescience, she even talked about how shooting Jewish people displayed attackers’ vulnerability, because it showed they felt unable to sit down and talk.
  • (4) What more timely image could there be for his departure than a Christmas costume and a prescience for all the humbug that will inevitably attend his death.
  • (5) With extraordinary prescience he distinguished emotional states associated with the suppression of digestion from those that were accompanied by accelerated gastric secretory and motor function.
  • (6) With what now looks like great prescience, Labour blogger Dan Hodges responded on Twitter: "Maurice Glasman has the black spot of Watson upon him.
  • (7) David Lammy, MP for Tottenham paid tribute to his friend's intellectual range and prescience: "He was one of those 'cut-through' academics that could write in an incredibly erudite, Ivy-league way but who could also explain things in a way that could be understood by the ordinary man and woman.
  • (8) In general, studies of coagulation proteins under defined conditions have demonstrated the prescience of Davie and Ratnoff and MacFarlane in their proposals of the coagulation cascade.
  • (9) Writing of gilded age monopolists and robber barons, Twain's prescience is remarkable: he denounces Jay Gould, the financier and speculator, for example, as "the mightiest disaster which has ever befallen this country".
  • (10) If Harriet Harman decided against running because of the stream of vitriol that might be unleashed, well – you can only admire her prescience.
  • (11) "The first game can give you a picture," Paolo Di Canio said beforehand with some prescience.
  • (12) Whether through prescience or wild optimism, Lord Porter claims to have foreseen the result of this year’s general election.
  • (13) Is his prescience born out of prophecy, or is it the product of something else?
  • (14) She replied: “The little party always gets smashed!” Former MP for Sheffield Hallam Nick Clegg is testament to Merkel’s prescience on that one, and I would not be in the least surprised if May is in fact attempting to assemble some kind of informal Brexit coalition with Labour, so that when the inevitable leaks about shambolic negotiations arrive on the 6 o’clock news, poor old Jeremy Corbyn will be on hand to take the blame.
  • (15) But what is clear is that Birkenstock successfully, and with prescience, identified the burgeoning interest in self-improvement through accessorising.
  • (16) Hence OCSC president Rawlins knew the biggest test of his prescience lay in convincing the local powers-that-be of a public-private funding partnership, along with proving their own financial bona fides.
  • (17) Brian Baxter writes: With uncharacteristic prescience, Bafta crowned Paul Scofield as best newcomer for his screen debut in That Lady.
  • (18) While the name FutureDairy is freighted with prescience for an era yet to be reached, it is, in fact, already arriving and transforming the economies and lifestyles of the early adopters.
  • (19) Gore's prescience Environment journalism has come a long way since 1975 when Geoffrey Lean – then of the Observer, now of the Telegraph – became the first dedicated correspondent.
  • (20) Supporters of the administration have pointed to the prescience of the speech, while critics argue it has in part become a self-fulfilling prophecy by serving to isolate Tehran and Pyongyang.