Foreknowledge
Foreknowledge is knowledge regarding future events. It may also refer to: * Foresight (other) * Precognition - prior viewing of some future event * Knowledge of predestination * Prediction or forecasting – calculated, informed or uninformed guesses regarding future events * Prognosis (other) – typically, informed predictions about future events in a confined context * Prophecy In religion, a prophecy is a message that has been communicated to a person (typically called a ''prophet'') by a supernatural entity. Prophecies are a feature of many cultures and belief systems and usually contain divine will or law, or prete ...

Precognition
Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future. There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Precognition violates the principle of causality, that an effect cannot occur before its cause. Precognition has been widely believed in throughout history. Despite the lack of scientific evidence, many people believe it to be real; it is still widely reported and remains a topic of research and discussion within the parapsychology community. Precognitive phenomena Precognition is sometimes treated as an example of the wider phenomenon of prescience or foreknowledge, to understand by any means what is likely to happen in the future. It is distinct from premonition, which is a vaguer feeling of some impending disaster. Related activities such as predictive prophecy and fortune ...
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Foresight (other)
Foresight most commonly refers to: * Foresight (psychology), the ability to predict or plan for the future * Mental time travel or episodic foresight, the ability to reconstruct events from the past and imagine future events * Precognition, a claimed psychic ability to see events in the future Foresight or fore sight may also refer to: * ''Foresight'' (forecasting journal), a publication on business forecasting, by the International Institute of Forecasters * Foresight (futures studies), European planning mechanism for public policy * ''Foresight'' (futures studies journal), an international bimonthly journal founded 1999 * Fore sight (surveying), short for "fore sight reading", a reading from a leveling staff when using a surveyor's level * Foresight Institute, an American nonprofit organization studying molecular nanotechnology * Foresight Linux, computer operating system * Foresight magazine, a Japanese magazine published monthly by Shinchosha * ''Chanting the Light of Foresigh ...
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Predestination
Predestination, in theology, is the doctrine that all events have been willed by God, usually with reference to the eventual fate of the individual soul. Explanations of predestination often seek to address the paradox of free will, whereby God's omniscience seems incompatible with human free will. In this usage, predestination can be regarded as a form of religious determinism; and usually predeterminism, also known as theological determinism. History Pre-Christian period Some have argued that the Book of Enoch contains a deterministic worldview that is combined with dualism. The book of Jubilees seems to harmonize or mix together a doctrine of free will and determinism. Ben Sira affirms free will, where God allows a choice of bad or good before the human and thus they can choose which one to follow. New Testament period There is some disagreement among scholars regarding the views on predestination of first-century AD Judaism, out of which Christianity came. J ...
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Prediction
A prediction (Latin ''præ-'', "before," and ''dicere'', "to say"), or forecast, is a statement about a future event or data. They are often, but not always, based upon experience or knowledge. There is no universal agreement about the exact difference from "estimation"; different authors and disciplines ascribe different connotations. Future events are necessarily uncertain, so guaranteed accurate information about the future is impossible. Prediction can be useful to assist in making plans about possible developments. Opinion In a non-statistical sense, the term "prediction" is often used to refer to an informed guess or opinion. A prediction of this kind might be informed by a predicting person's abductive reasoning, inductive reasoning, deductive reasoning, and experience; and may be useful—if the predicting person is a knowledgeable person in the field. The Delphi method is a technique for eliciting such expert-judgement-based predictions in a controlled way. Th ...
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Prognosis (other)
Prognosis is a doctor's prediction about a disease. Prognosis may also refer to: *Prediction, a statement or claim that a particular event will occur in the future *Prognostics, an engineering discipline focused on predicting the future condition or estimating remaining useful life of a component and/or system of components * Precognition, the claimed psychic ability to perceive information about future places or events before they happen * Fortune-telling, predicting the future, usually of an individual, often commercially *Divination Divination (from Latin ''divinare'', 'to foresee, to foretell, to predict, to prophesy') is the attempt to gain insight into a question or situation by way of an occultic, standardized process or ritual. Used in various forms throughout histor ...