Prescience vs Conjecture - What's the difference?
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Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
(formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a .
(formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
(mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally (l).
(obsolete) of signs and omens.
(formal) To ; to venture an unproven idea.
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Prescience is a related term of conjecture.
As a noun prescience
is knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.As a verb conjecture is
.prescience
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* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. (Jonathan Edwards)
conjecture
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Noun
- I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
- The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
Synonyms
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(conjectur)- I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
- Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.