Hindsight, historical view, retrospective
Origin: Del lat. retrospicĕre
Looking backward: the opposite of foresight. Reasoning, after the fact, about why things turned out as they did. Finding causal explanations for chains of events, when in fact the events may have been random.
Spanish: Retrospectiva
Sources and references
- TGcited 10 times
- Kahneman, David, “Thinking Fast and Slow”, 2012cited 2 times
- Destatte, Philippe y Philippe Durance “Les mot-clés de la prospective territoriale”cited 56 times
- Jackson, Michael “Foresight Glossary”; http://www.shapingtomorrow.com/media-centre/pf-ch11.pdfcited 31 times
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