Postdiction
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Postdiction
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Postdiction involves explanation after the fact.
In skepticism, it is considered an effect of hindsight bias that explains claimed predictions of significant events such as plane crashes and natural disasters. In religious contexts, theologians frequently refer to postdiction using the Latin term vaticinium ex eventu. Through this term, skeptics postulate that many biblical prophecies appearing to have come true may have been written after the events supposedly predicted, or that the text or int
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Explanations given after the fact
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postdiction
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2024-01-16T04:05:35Z
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