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Prevision vs Prescience - What's the difference?

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Prevision is a related term of prescience.


As nouns the difference between prevision and prescience

is that prevision is prevision while prescience is knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.

prevision

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete)

Noun

(previsions)
  • Advance knowledge; foresight.
  • *1897 , Henry James, What Maisie Knew :
  • *:it was the beginning for her of a deeper prevision that, in spite of Miss Overmore's brilliancy and Mrs. Wix's passion, she should live to see a change in the nature of the struggle she appeared to have come into the world to produce.
  • *1946 , (Bertrand Russell), History of Western Philosophy , I.21:
  • *:The whole discussion is concerned with City States, and their is no prevision of their obsolescence.
  • A prediction.

    • Verb

  • To predict or envision the future.

    • prescience

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight; foreknowledge.
    • God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. (Jonathan Edwards)