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Predeterminism is the philosophy that all events of history, past, present and future, have been already decided or are already known (by God, fate, or some other force), including human actions. Predeterminism is closely related to determinism. [1]
Jamais vu is commonly explained as when a person momentarily does not recognize a word or, less commonly, a person or place, that they already know. [2] Jamais vu is sometimes associated with certain types of aphasia, amnesia, and epilepsy. The phenomenon is often grouped with déjà vu and presque vu (tip of the tongue, literally "almost seen ...
The past continuous tense refers to actions that continued for a period of time, as in the sentence "she was walking," which describes an action that was still happening in a prior window of time to which a speaker is presently referring. The past perfect tense is used to describe actions that were already completed by a specific point in the past.
Déjà vu (/ ˌ d eɪ ʒ ɑː ˈ v (j) uː / ⓘ [1] [2] DAY-zhah-VOO, - VEW, French: [deʒa vy] ⓘ; "already seen") is the phenomenon of feeling as though one has lived through the present situation before.
Syncretism is "the relation between words which have different morphosyntactic features but are identical in form." [4] For example, the English first person genitive pronouns are distinct for dependent my and independent mine, but for he, there is syncretism: the dependent and independent pronouns share the form his (e.g., that's his book; it's his).
The category of "prophetic perfect" was already suggested by medieval Hebrew grammarians, [3] such as David Kimhi: "The matter is as clear as though it had already passed," [4] or Isaac ben Yedaiah: "[The rabbis] of blessed memory followed, in these words of theirs, in the paths of the prophets who speak of something which will happen in the ...
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Korean - 해가 서쪽에서 뜨겠다(haega seojjogeseo teugeta) means “Sun might rise from the West”, commonly used as a response to a news that something improbable happened. Lombard (Milanese dialect) – quand pìssen i òch ("when the geese will piss"), refers to the fact that geese do not urinate. [citation needed]