Such prescience is now cause for concern.
Ms Rice says in “No Higher Honour” (to be published next week) that she saw the need for more planning for the invasion's aftermath, but was blocked by the absence of prescience in those around her.
Darwin's intellect, humility (" it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance ") and prescience astonish more as scientists clarify, in detail he never imagined, how much he got right.
While most of what Trelawney teaches seems to be just "lucky guesswork and a spooky manner," as Harry thinks (GF13), there are instances of actual prescience and prediction in the books.
The book was written while Barack Obama's career was still on the launch pad, yet it describes with uncanny prescience the atmosphere that allowed him to soar.
” his prescience as a political philosopher flows from his “revulsion at triumphalist views” (in the view of Paul Berman, author of Flight of the Intellectuals).
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