foreknowledge Definition
fore·knowl·edge (fôr′näl′ij, fôr näl′ij)
noun
knowledge of something before it happens or exists; prescience
foreknowledge Synonyms
foreknowledge Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- attack: I mean not to say that he had a foreknowledge of thy attack upon Greece; but in truth he feared all armaments.
- event: In following years, he had only to chew his thumb to have foreknowledge of events.
Converse of object
have: The speed of their arrival suggests they had foreknowledge of the bombing.
Adjective modifier
- divine: The problem of the compatibility of divine foreknowledge with human free will.
- full: He has a full foreknowledge of all the consequences of the word he is now to speak.
- perfect: For this reason therefore, inasmuch as they had obtained a perfect foreknowledge of this, they appointed those already mentioned.
- complete: Safety judgment is a subjective process because it entails the prediction of the likelihood and severity of hazards in the absence of complete foreknowledge.
- such: The truth conditions of such foreknowledge crucially include what people will in fact choose to do.
Modifies a noun
cannot: Now this foreknowledge cannot be elicited from spirits; it cannot be obtained inductively from experience, nor by any deductive calculation.
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