retrocognition
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Retrocognition (also known as postcognition or hindsight), from the Latin retro meaning "backward, behind" and cognition meaning "knowing," describes "knowledge of a past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means." The term was coined by Frederic W. H. Myers.
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- superpower
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- extrasensory perception
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- Moberly–Jourdain incident
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- facet of
- time travel
- uses
- past
- opposite of
- precognition
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- named by
- Frederic William Henry Myers
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Retrocognition (also known as postcognition or hindsight), from the Latin retro meaning "backward, behind" and cognition meaning "knowing," describes "knowledge of a past event which could not have been learned or inferred by normal means." The term was coined by Frederic W. H. Myers.
==Overview== Scientific researchers into psychic phenomena have long considered retrocognition untestable. To verify an accurate retrocognitive experience, existing documents and human knowledge must be consulted, which raises the possibility that the information was already known contemporaneously.
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