could someone define the difference between foresight and hindsight and is it relevant?
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foresight is the ability to see something before it happens whereas hindsight is to realize you should have acted different once something has taken place.\n\nIn hindsight it would have been better if George Bush had the foresight to avoid the Iraq war so as not to have caused the death of military personnel.
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it's better to regret something you've done..then to regret something you haven't done...\n\ndo you want to say "what if" all your life!!!!
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I KNEW you were going to ask that! \n\nTruthfully, we cannot predict the future, but we can make guesses. Based on what has gone on before, our mind creates patterns which create some order and predictability.
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Ability to exercise one's choice and bring that choice into effect independently of any involuntary causal link which made that person's choice a necessary outcome.\n\nEDIT:  SH's attempt to show a contradiction in human libertarian free will and classical theism fails.  God's divine foreknowledge assures us that He knows what we would choose if presented with a set of options in certain circumstances.  But we still have the ability to choose.  In other words, God's infallible foreknowledge makes a particular outcome CERTAIN, but this does not make that outcome in any way NECESSARY.  \n\nThe difference is a measure of epistemological CERTAINTY, and ontological NECESSITY.  Put differently, God's perfect foreknowledge no more causes us to choose an option any more than an infallible barometer controls the weather.
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Both 'will' and 'going to' are in the future tense. I need to know a little bit more about the sentence to see the full context of what you are asking.
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Some people tend to use one method over the other almost all the time.  Methodical people tend the be rational thinkers with little or no intuition.  Fast and to the pointers tend to be the opposite, relying on intuition without thinking about the problem.\nIn most cases something between.  Slow and methodical can be carried to extremes and nothing will ever happen except thinking about the situation.  Fast and to the point can be carried too far and turn into fast but missing the mark.
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Accounting looks backwards (what's been done).  Finance looks forward (what can be done).
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THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE.\nDeming emphasized that knowledge is not possible without theory, and experience alone does not establish a theory. Experience only describes—it cannot be tested or validated—and alone is no help for management. Theory, on the other hand, shows a cause-and-effect relationship that can be used for prediction. There is a lesson here for the widespread benchmarking practices: copying only an example of success, without understanding it in theory, may not lead to success, but could lead to disaster.
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I think some dreams do foretell the future and I think some show us the past.\nThe future ones to tell us where we are headed if we stay on the path we are on.\nThe past ones so we can learn from it.\nSome dreams of course are just that, dreams.
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Aaaaaah, let us see. Both are a way of conveying thoughts. Both are a form introspection. Both are a round about way of saying a very simple thing\n:)
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Definitely past tense. You will make statements about things that "have happened" in the past, as opposed to things that "are happening" in the future.
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To judge it.\n\nHistory comes from the latin word Histor, which means wise man or judge.\n\nMy role in history is to know it and judge how it affects me and my environment.\n\nAnd the reason for this is that the future doesn't have any meaning if it doesn't have a past.
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Prediction - Stab in the dark.\n\nEstimation - Educated guess based on knowledge you already have.\n\nExpectation - The anticipated results of the educated guess you made.
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Exactly. Your an optimist. Keep it up! Its optimism that makes the earth rotate or else it would have stopped.\n\nForget the past , think of the future. We always take steps forward , never backward. So why do we think of the past. Yesterday is History. Right said. Tommorrow is a mystery, even better. \n\nLive today to the fullest.
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No.\n\nDifference between my answer and the answer above?  Above = short term perspective.  Below = long term perspective.
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The worst limitation is that it is not forward looking. It cannot predict the future, only analyze the past, compare and contrast the present with the past.
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The term "destiny" often implies predetermined: the word used is "predestination."  But free will is a real thing, and you are indeed responsible for your own choices.  The whole "free will vs. determinism" question has been debated ad nauseum in philosophy.  To me, the concept that there is an all-seeing being who can predict what you will decide does not mitigate your responsibility to decide as wisely as you can, and so the question is moot.