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precognition
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Precognition \Pre`cog*ni"tion\, n. [L. praecognitio, fr. praecognoscere to foreknow. See Pre-, and Cognition.]
Previous cognition.
--Fotherby.(Scots Law) A preliminary examination of a criminal case with reference to a prosecution.
--Erskine.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"foreknowledge," mid-15c., from Late Latin praecognitionem (nom. praecognitio), noun of action from past participle stem of Latin praecognoscere "to foreknow," from prae "before" (see pre-) + cognoscere "to know" (see cognizance).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context parapsychology English) The ability to foresee the future. 2 (context parapsychology English) knowledge of an event that is to occur in the future. 3 (context Scotland English) The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial.
WordNet
n. knowledge of an event before it occurs [syn: foreknowledge]
Wikipedia
Precognition (from the Latin præ-, "before" and cognitio, "acquiring knowledge"), also called prescience, future sight, or second sight, is an alleged psychic ability to see events in the future.
As with other forms of extrasensory perception, there is no evidence that precognition is a real ability possessed by anyone and precognition is widely considered pseudoscience. However, it still appears within movies, books, and discussion within the parapsychology community, with claimed precognition of earthquakes sometimes covered by the newsmedia.
Scientific investigation of extrasensory perception is complicated by the definition which implies that the phenomena go against established principles of science. Specifically, precognition would violate the principle that an effect cannot occur before its cause. There are established biases affecting human memory and judgment of probability that sometimes create convincing but false impressions of precognition.
Precognition may refer to:
- Precognition, the psychic ability to foresee events before they occur.
- Precognition (Scots law), taking written statements from witnesses
Precognition in Scots law is the practice of taking a factual statement from witnesses before a trial is enjoined. This is often undertaken by trainee lawyers or precognition officers employed by firms. Many of these are former police officers.
This procedure is followed in both civil and criminal causes. While the subsequent statement is itself inadmissible as evidence, it allows an advocate or solicitor in Scotland to appear before the courts of Scotland knowing what evidence each witness is likely to present.
Usage examples of "precognition".
In fact, the data from precognition research strongly suggest that an experiment could, in principle, be affected by a signal sent from the future!
Similarly, in order for precognition to occur, one must be contiguous in awareness with the future event that is sensed.
In the following chapter, we will explore precognition - remote viewing of the future.
For example, if you are unprepared for an exam and you dream about failing it, we would not consider this to be precognition but ordinary cause and effect.
Charles Honorton and Diane Ferrari examined reports of 309 precognition experiments that had been carried out by sixty-two investigators.
Earlier in this chapter, I mentioned a large retrospective analysis by Charles Honorton and Diane Ferrari, of 309 precognition experiments carried out over the fifty years between 1935 and 1987.
We see that there is overwhelming evidence for the existence of precognition but, more important, we learn that there are more successful and less successful ways to do experiments.
Participants who are enthusiastic about the experiment are the most successful in these precognition studies.
Nonetheless, studies by Gertrude Schmeidler at City College of New York showed significant precognition with college students in forced-choice trials of computer-generated targets, even when the viewers did not receive any feedback.
Hal Puthoff at SRI, the first case of precognition appeared spontaneously during a session in 1974.
He had little faith in precognition, especially as it might relate to himself.
He was seeing precognition in operation, and wanted to know to what extent it was valid.
He had not really accepted the validity of precognition yet, and now this!
Every time he tested that precognition, he came away with a greater respect for it.
Telepathy, clairvoyance, pyrotechnic, telekinesis, precognition, transmutation and the hundreds of psi-skill variants that defied easy classification?