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Jeff_999 Posted 21 years ago
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analogy/PRESCIENCE: FUTURE
PRESCIENCE: FUTURE::
A. irrationality: sanity
B. predictability: past
C. irascibility: emotions
D. erudition: esoterica
E. talkativeness: loquacity
Prescience is knowledge of events before they occur (i.e. knowledge of future events). It seems, however, there's no pair has this kind of relationship. Help me out please.
A. irrationality: sanity
B. predictability: past
C. irascibility: emotions
D. erudition: esoterica
E. talkativeness: loquacity
Prescience is knowledge of events before they occur (i.e. knowledge of future events). It seems, however, there's no pair has this kind of relationship. Help me out please.
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I'd say (D): Erudition is profound, or broad knowledge. , knowledge specific to a limited group of initiates. Erudition is knowledge that grasps esoteric matters.
- I'd say (D): Erudition is profound, or broad knowledge.
- , knowledge specific to a limited group of initiates.
- Erudition is knowledge that grasps esoteric matters.
- Prescience is knowledge that grasps the future (the unknown).
- Both pairs suggest knowledge that grasps the 'hard-to-know'.
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I'd say (D):
Erudition is profound, or broad knowledge. Esoterica is priviledged knowledge, i.e., knowledge specific to a limited group of initiates. Erudition is knowledge that grasps esoteric matters. Prescience is knowledge that grasps the future (the unknown). Both pairs suggest knowledge that grasps the 'hard-to-know'.
Erudition is profound, or broad knowledge. Esoterica is priviledged knowledge, i.e., knowledge specific to a limited group of initiates. Erudition is knowledge that grasps esoteric matters. Prescience is knowledge that grasps the future (the unknown). Both pairs suggest knowledge that grasps the 'hard-to-know'.
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