单词 | retrodictively |
释义 | > as lemmasˌretroˈdictively ˌretroˈdictively adv. in a retrodictive manner; by means of or as regards retrodiction. ΚΠ 1955 Australasian Jrnl. Philos. 33 42 A1 = creature walking, inferred retrodictively from B1 (effect). 1978 S. D. Krasner Defending Nat. Interest viii. 313 A decision rule that can retrodictively predict when American leaders were willing to use force. 2002 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 92 120 A scholar who believed that there is nothing to explain retrodictively about these events..would be a mere chronicler of them rather than an historian. < as lemmas |
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