Unforeseeability vs Predictable - What's the difference?
unforeseeability | predictable |
Inability to be predicted or anticipated.
* 2003 May 28, Jim Porter, "
* 2009 Dec. 6, , "
* 2009 , Bert Olivier, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory: Collected Essays , ISBN 9783039119011,
As a noun unforeseeability
is inability to be predicted or anticipated.As an adjective predictable is
able to be predicted.unforeseeability
English
Noun
(-)Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
- An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.
A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court," New York Times (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011):
- No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).
pp. 139-140:
- This is what Derrida calls the ‘messianic’ structure of experience. . . the tacit possibility that the ‘other’ (or otherness) may surprise one. . . . [T]he very structure of experience exhibits this unforeseeability .
