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“The fact that we have not had as much warming as models predic”
Matthew Yglesias » The Tragedy of Obama’s Climate Policy 2009
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If you could predic t the Israeli over-reaction, don't you think they could too?
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A lot of pundits like to get on TV and give their predic ...
Dan Solin: Even If You Knew What to Do, Your Brain Might Not Let You 2008
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A lot of pundits like to get on TV and give their predic ...
Dan Solin: Even If You Knew What to Do, Your Brain Might Not Let You 2008
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He chides his superiors — up to and including Secretary of State Henry Kissinger — for suppressing or ignoring his predic-tion, obtained from a spy deep within the Communist command structure, that the Communists would never settle for a negotiated peace.
Notes from Underground Nelson, Lars-Erik 1999
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Hananiah ben Azzur who confuted Jeremiah's predic - tions of doom.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MOSHE GREENBERG 1968
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He insists in his Opticks (1704) that his theories are proper rather than ad hoc expla - nations, and true (because they provide precise predic - tions), so that one ought not complain about them even if they may need further explanation to fit them into
Dictionary of the History of Ideas JOSEPH AGASSI 1968
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With the positions of all the planetary divinities known at the instant of any individual's conception or birth, it was believed possible to make a long-range predic - tion of his fate.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas EDWARD ROSEN 1968
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Watson went further than most psychologists in making sweeping analogies between animal and human behavior and in his dogmatic and flamboyant claim that all human behavior is susceptible to predic - tion and control.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas MERLE CURTI 1968
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Wells blended science fiction, prophecy, and realistic social analysis to produce works more predic - tive than utopian.
UTOPIA ROGER L. EMERSON 1968
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