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foreknowledge Definition

fore·knowl·edge (fôrnäl′ij, fôr nälij)

noun

knowledge of something before it happens or exists; prescience

foreknowledge Synonyms

foreknowledge

n.

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.