precognition

Also known as future sight, second sight, second-sight

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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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
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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.

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.