precognition
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Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Precognitive phenomena
- In religion
- History
- Antiquity
- 17th–19th centuries
- Early 20th century
- Late 20th century
- 21st century
- Scientific reception
- Pseudoscience
- Violation of causality
- Lack of evidence
- Alternative explanations
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Further reading
Precognition (from the Latin 'before', and 'acquiring knowledge') is the purported psychic phenomenon of seeing, or otherwise becoming directly aware of, events in the future.
There is no accepted scientific evidence that precognition is a real effect, and it is widely considered to be pseudoscience. Precognition violates the principle of causality, that an effect cannot occur before its cause.
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