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Definition of Retrodiction
1. Noun. A form of "prediction" that deals with the past rather than the future, sometimes useful in testing theories whose actual predictions are too long-term to be of immediate use. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Retrodiction
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Retrodiction
Literary usage of Retrodiction
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paradoxes of Free Will by Gunther Siegmund Stent (2002)
"retrodiction in History. Since human affairs belong to the world's most chaotic
phenomena, the second-stage unpredictability of human history was ..."
2. Buckle and His Critics: A Study in Sociology by John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"... we have called " retrodiction." The proper analogue to sociology* here is not
astronomy but zoology or biology—the field of the study of the origin, ..."
3. Buckle and His Critics: A Study in Sociology by John Mackinnon Robertson (1895)
"And the same reasoning applies to errors of interpretation, of what we have
called " retrodiction." The proper analogue to ..."
4. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"They can obtain their result only after the prediction has turned into a
retrodiction (1961:vii). This argument, purely logical according to Popper, ..."
5. Catalyzing Inquiry at the Interface of Computing and Biology by John C. Wooley, Herbert Lin (2005)
"... generates results that can be checked for consistency with existing
data ("retrodiction" of data) and can also predict new phenomena not explicitly ..."
6. Wetenskapbeelde in Die Geesteswetenskappe by J. Snyman (1995)
"... the prediction has turned into a retrodiction (1961:vii). Hierdie argument
wat volgens Popper suiwer logies is, geld vir wetenskaplike voorspellers van ..."
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