Knowing It All Along

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Category: Cognition

Foundational LexiconI knew it
Executive Parlanceretrospective certainty
Scholarly Discoursecreeping determinism
Babel ZenithHindsight Bias
Origin: Psychology

Etymology & Meaning

The tendency to see past events as having been predictable.

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