| It gives one some ability to predict with justification further events, and likewise to retrodict and juxtadict. |
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| Overriding the wilful ignorance of his past, he tapped into his present state as a means to retrodict what could have been in bygone days. |
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| Hempel contends that laws and theories help explain, predict, or retrodict uniformity in natural phenomena. |
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| We come to realize that the criterion of simplicity is also at work when we retrodict as well as when we predict. |
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| He has created a powerful device with the ability to predict the future and retrodict the past by tracking the position and vector of every particle in the universe. |
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| The only measure of success here is how well the models retrodict climate. |
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| We can, in other words, retrodict, and if we are good at it — if we can find a story that incorporates the events and fits their magnitude — we can bring the consolations of narrative to otherwise inexplicable occurrences. |
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