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afterknowledge

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Afterknowledge (noun) means understanding that only comes once an event has already taken place.

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Understanding that only comes once an event has already taken place.

"With the afterknowledge of history it is hard to understand why contemporaries did not, in 1964, interpret the march of events as we do now – as a process leading to inevitable breakdown in the seventies." — W. M. Scammell, The International Economy since 1945 (1980)

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