'foreknowledge' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it when referring to knowledge of events or situations before they occur. For example: "The prophets claimed to have foreknowledge of what was to come."
Although there was no evidence Barot had any foreknowledge of 9/11 one ominous clip, played in court, featured the World Trade Centre with someone imitating the noise of an explosion in the background.
Virtually the entire country presumed that Mr Putin, who breezily denied foreknowledge of the arrest, simply wanted to silence the voice of opposition.Yet, despite all this, it is still possible to paint a less bleak picture.
It has since filed for insolvency amid allegations of accounting fraud and breach of trust by its directors.Public prosecutors are still investigating the affair, but they suspect that Mr Mark may have had foreknowledge of the troubles ahead.
Her eyes are invariably downcast, suggesting solemnity, a soul turned inward, and the tragic foreknowledge of her son's fate.
The authors speculate that foreknowledge of value capture can influence value creation: the person with the idea for the gum may not want to share that idea with friends who might patent the gum first.
Ernesto Zedillo, the former president who finally brought democracy to Mexico, faces civil charges in America over claims which he denies of foreknowledge of a massacre by PRI paramilitaries in 1997.
Ms McKinney is also known for her interest in conspiracy theories about the murders of Martin Luther King and the rapper Tupac Shakur, and about President George Bush's supposed foreknowledge of the attacks of September 11th 2001.
There is a question of perception: one person's synergy (the happy combination of abilities and information) is another person's conflict of interest (ruthless exploitation of privileged foreknowledge).
So in principle, to continue in a Rumsfeldian vein, foreknowledge of things that are not going to take place may be as useful as foreknowledge of things that are going to take place.
This second mode of foreknowledge, mirroring the nature of time, seems to leave some space for human freedom.
As we have noted, however, from Boethius onward there have been those who have held that eternalism solves the problem of human libertarian freedom and divine foreknowledge, and in any case such an argument has no appeal to non-libertarians.
