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Prescience
/ˈprɛs.i.əns/noun
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Prescience is the extraordinary ability to foresee or know future events before they happen, often linked to intuition, prophecy, or deep insight. In today's world, it's frequently applied metaphorically in business and technology to describe sharp predictive skills based on data and trends, though it's rarely literal.
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Philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz popularized prescience in the 17th century to debate God's foreknowledge, influencing thinkers like Voltaire, and it's echoed in quantum physics where particles exhibit behaviors that seem to anticipate future interactions, as seen in experiments like the double-slit test.
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