precognition

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The Clairvoyants perform mentalism, the branch of magic that encapsulates all things mind-reading, precognition and extrasensory perception.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2025

Today we may view that observation as something akin to informed precognition.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2025

Wallace had “a level of precognition about certain things,” he adds.

From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2021

Yet 60 years later, the most accepted explanation of precognition is that we suffer from cognitive biases, retroactively seeking patterns to make sense of a senseless world.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2019

When one has such a dream and the predicted event hap pens, it’s hard not to believe in precognition.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos