CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO RETRODICT
PRESENT
Present
I retrodict
you retrodict
he/she/it retrodicts
we retrodict
you retrodict
they retrodict
Present continuous
I am retrodicting
you are retrodicting
he/she/it is retrodicting
we are retrodicting
you are retrodicting
they are retrodicting
Present perfect
I have retrodicted
you have retrodicted
he/she/it has retrodicted
we have retrodicted
you have retrodicted
they have retrodicted
Present perfect continuous
I have been retrodicting
you have been retrodicting
he/she/it has been retrodicting
we have been retrodicting
you have been retrodicting
they have been retrodicting
Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The
present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.
PAST
Past
I retrodicted
you retrodicted
he/she/it retrodicted
we retrodicted
you retrodicted
they retrodicted
Past continuous
I was retrodicting
you were retrodicting
he/she/it was retrodicting
we were retrodicting
you were retrodicting
they were retrodicting
Past perfect
I had retrodicted
you had retrodicted
he/she/it had retrodicted
we had retrodicted
you had retrodicted
they had retrodicted
Past perfect continuous
I had been retrodicting
you had been retrodicting
he/she/it had been retrodicting
we had been retrodicting
you had been retrodicting
they had been retrodicting
Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,
FUTURE
Future
I will retrodict
you will retrodict
he/she/it will retrodict
we will retrodict
you will retrodict
they will retrodict
Future continuous
I will be retrodicting
you will be retrodicting
he/she/it will be retrodicting
we will be retrodicting
you will be retrodicting
they will be retrodicting
Future perfect
I will have retrodicted
you will have retrodicted
he/she/it will have retrodicted
we will have retrodicted
you will have retrodicted
they will have retrodicted
Future perfect continuous
I will have been retrodicting
you will have been retrodicting
he/she/it will have been retrodicting
we will have been retrodicting
you will have been retrodicting
they will have been retrodicting
The
future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.
CONDITIONAL
Conditional
I would retrodict
you would retrodict
he/she/it would retrodict
we would retrodict
you would retrodict
they would retrodict
Conditional continuous
I would be retrodicting
you would be retrodicting
he/she/it would be retrodicting
we would be retrodicting
you would be retrodicting
they would be retrodicting
Conditional perfect
I would have retrodict
you would have retrodict
he/she/it would have retrodict
we would have retrodict
you would have retrodict
they would have retrodict
Conditional perfect continuous
I would have been retrodicting
you would have been retrodicting
he/she/it would have been retrodicting
we would have been retrodicting
you would have been retrodicting
they would have been retrodicting
Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.
IMPERATIVE
Imperative
you retrodict
we let´s retrodict
you retrodict
The
imperative is used to form commands or requests.
NONFINITE VERB FORMS
Past participle
retrodicted
Present Participle
retrodicting
Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The
present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The
past participle shows the action after completion.
10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RETRODICT»
Discover the use of
retrodict in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
retrodict and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Foundations of Illocutionary Logic
(16) retrodict. "Retrodict" is not a word in standard English but is a semi- technical
term introduced to serve as an opposite to "predict". To retrodict is simply to
assert a past proposition with respect to the time of the utterance, on the basis of
...
John R. Searle, Daniel Vanderveken, 1985
2
EPSA Philosophical Issues in the Sciences: Launch of the ...
But then the system will not be closed between ti and t f and we cannot use the
dynamical laws and boundary conditions governing the closed system to retrodict
the initial at ti. Thus, there is a way for first experimenter to prepare the system in
...
Mauricio Suárez, Mauro Dorato, Miklós Rédei, 2010
3
Mind, Brain, and Free Will
We can also retrodict past and present unobserved events. We can retrodict the
occurrence of an unobserved event C on the grounds that, given our theory T, it is
probable that such an event was cause of some observed event E. The criteria ...
We would only retrodict a non-equilibrium past state if we explicitly added the
information that the system was recently open, and that we have some
knowledge of the type of intervention it could have been subjected to. This last
point is ...
Yemima Ben-Menahem, Meir Hemmo, 2012
5
Foundations of Marketing Theory: Toward a General Theory of ...
Ck are observed (e.g., the amount of carbon 14 in the bones of a deceased
animal), and (b) certain laws L,, Lr Ly... L.(e.g., laws governing radiocarbon decay
) are then applied to (c) retrodict the occurrence of some past phenomenon (e.g.,
...
6
Mind and Common Sense: Philosophical Essays on Common Sense ...
If you have an explanation such as "the earth rotates around the sun because (
such and so)," then you can temporally index it to predict that "the earth will rotate
tomorrow because (same such and so)" or retrodict that "the earth was rotating in
...
7
The Road to Maxwell's Demon: Conceptual Foundations of ...
In a collapse theory the situation is even worse: after a quantum erasure one
cannot even retrodict which observables took definite values in the past. In our
set up, since I is maximally incompatible with the pointer (or memory) observable,
...
Meir Hemmo, Orly R. Shenker, 2012
8
Scientific Realism: How Science Tracks Truth
On the other hand, if we use A (= A1, & A2) to retrodict the past instrumental
reliability of scientific theories (A1,), we will have to appeal, implicitly, to their
future reliability (A2), a fact as much in need of explanation and grounding as is
A1.
9
Tools in Fluvial Geomorphology
A simple application would be to retrodict limiting channel slope and bankfull
discharge conditions for deposits of either a braided or a meandering river by
invoking the threshold hydraulic conditions between these two channel patterns ...
G. Mathias Kondolf, Hervé Piégay, 2005
10
From Malthus to the Club of Rome and Back: Problems of ...
me because it brings back the question raised above: If it is that easy to produce
major changes in the model — in this case to make it retrodict for twenty years
with minor modifications within the error or plausibility range of the data — how ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RETRODICT»
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retrodict is used in the context of the following news items.
Paul Di Filippo reviews James L. Cambias
If you look back fifteen years to the year 2000, and gauge the year 2015 from that vantage and use Stross's formula to try to retrodict what we have, you'll see it's ... «Locus Online, May 15»
No, Psychiatry Could Not Have Prevented the Germanwings Disaster
... us the ability to assemble the fragments of his life into a coherent narrative that ends in an explosion in the Alps. We can, in other words, retrodict, and if we are ... «The New Yorker, Apr 15»
The Future Affects The Past? Welcome To The Quantum Universe
The shattering thing about the retrodiction is that it is 90 percent accurate. When the physicists check it against the stored measurement of the system's earlier ... «Science 2.0, Feb 15»
Scientist of the Week: Tim Kohler
Finally, PhD students in my lab are developing new ways to retrodict maize production through time, drawing on tree-ring data for climatic information, and to ... «Laboratory Equipment, Aug 14»
Eighteen-Million-Year-Old Proteins Found In Daisy Seeds Have …
Using sequences the researchers cloned, they were able to retrodict the likely stepwise creation of PawS1's additional destiny within a simple albumin precursor ... «BioNews Texas, Apr 14»
"The Perfect Theory": The story of general relativity, and what makes …
By 1919 the theory had been well-established as part of the scientific enterprise, especially after it retrodicted the correct value of the perihelion of mercury and ... «Scientific American, Feb 14»
Jamie Whyte: Science Says So, Suckers!
Many are impressed by the fact that climate models can "retrodict" climatic change—that is, use past climatic data (say, from the 1860s) to predict climatic data ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 13»
Higgs hunters look beyond the Standard Model
QCD still cannot retrodict the mass of the proton without considerable ... As for retrodicting the mass of the electron, the SM cannot even make an attempt. 3. «physicsworld.com, May 13»
NFL Combine: What do the Workouts Say For Offensive Linemen?
It was difficult to retrodict any data—once players passed a certain physical threshold and established themselves as pass blockers, it seemed as if there wasn't ... «Daily Norseman, Feb 13»
Is the age of scientific genius over?
Makes over 35 successful retrodictions of fundamental physical parameters for systems ranging from subatomic particles to atoms, to stars, and to galaxies. «Scientific American, Feb 13»
