afterknowledge

noun

Etymology

From after- + knowledge.

  1. inherited from knowleche
  2. prefixed as afterknowledge — “after + knowledge

Definitions

  1. Knowledge acquired later, or after the event.

    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for afterknowledge. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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