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What does precognition mean?

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Noun
  1. (parapsychology) Knowledge of the future; understanding of something in advance, especially as a form of supernatural or extrasensory perception. [from 15th c.]
  2. (Scotland, law) The practice of taking a factual statement from a witness before a trial. [from 17th c.]
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He provides a useful overview of divinatory techniques, astrology, and so on to demarcate these from precognition.
Much of this work was conducted with Mihalasky, and their further collaboration brought clear, astonishing evidence of precognition.
He or she needs to be gifted with a kind of compositional precognition, understanding inherently what shots, setups, and sequences will produce fear and foreboding.
They may be cognitive, as in the case of clairvoyance, telepathy, or precognition.
Now some might call that telepathy, others clairvoyance or precognition, or others dub it a trick or coincidence.
But her detractors are wrong in demanding that she have both an artist's vision and a prophet's precognition.

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