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foreseeable adjective anticipatable, anticipated, contemplated, counted upon, expected, foreknowable, foreseen, foretellable, known in advance, looked for, perceived, planned, praesciens, predictable, probable, reasonably anticipated, to be expected, vaticinal Associated concepts: duty to anticipate, forseeability in connidering proximate cause, forseeable dangers, forseeable injury, forseeable risk, last clear chance Foreign phrases: Nemo tenetur divinare.No man is bound to foretell, or to have foreknowledge of, a future event. Rerum progressus ostendunt multa, quae in initio praeeaveri seu praevide ri non possunt. In the course of events, many problems arise which at the beginning could not be guarded against or foreseen. See also: forthcoming, future, probable How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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A would-be reader, having sufficient patience and curiosity, is well advised to undertake a novel of this quality, certainly--but to do so with enough time foreseeably in hand to keep the story line freshly in mind; for the work is complicated enough without extraneous distractions breaking in upon one. This mandated reporting extends "to those foreseeably endangered" (McCarthy & Sorenson, 1993, p. They suggest that, when medical treatment which is foreseeably fatal kills a terminally ill patient, it makes no moral difference whether the intention was to relieve pain or cause death. |
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