foreknowledge
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8.9
- noun
- /ˈfɔrˌnɑlɪdʒ/
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presciencia
- There are also the associated problems of God's supposed foreknowledge and human freedom.
So the Stoics were willing to say that there could be divine foreknowledge.
- So the Stoics were willing to say that there could be divine foreknowledge.
- And it's like God's foreknowledge is that which guarantees us the freedom to choose rightly in that moment in the future.
- But you could have in the an example that's often given of the reverse is God's foreknowledge and free will.
Examples
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Many models printed for free in the journals of agricultural economics imply foreknowledge of the price of corn.
Academic text (1992) -
We strongly affirm that those who have been elected according to the foreknowledge of God will be saved.
Blog text (14) -
And he says that you can believe this by faith, that there is divine foreknowledge and there is free choice of the will.
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All happens according to the counsel and foreknowledge of God, and according to the time He determines.
Blog text (14) -
You must remember, in military science, foreknowledge is lifesaving.
Fiction book (1991) -
First, Nixon only covered up a scandal, but had no foreknowledge of the actual break-in.
Blog text (29) -
We hoped the tribe was killed because they were unprepared, and that our foreknowledge would help save our tribe.
Blog text (3) -
Hence, the agony of foreknowledge combined with the impotence to do anything about it.
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Preferences were solicited with the foreknowledge that the majority of participants in the room would determine subsequent modifications to the software.
Academic text (1999) -
Before the meeting, he claimed to have some foreknowledge of the company's plan for expansion.
Synonyms
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5.6
The ability to think ahead and plan for the future
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9.9
To know about a future event before it happens, often as a dream or feeling
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9.9
To know what will happen in the future
Thinking about the future to plan for it
An ability to see and plan for things that will happen
How Certain
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Foreknowledge comes from fore- meaning 'before' and knowledge meaning 'knowing', so it is like foresee or forecast; it means 'knowing' something 'before' it happens.