Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- By way of prediction; prophetically.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In the manner of something that attempts or succeeds in
predicting ,anticipating orexpecting .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Now Pepsi is looking at how to develop these programs to predictively advertise their goodies.
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Now Pepsi is looking at how to develop these programs to predictively advertise their goodies.
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If that is so even though they were predictively successful, then the success of our best current theories does not mean they have got the nature of the world right either.
Structural Realism Ladyman, James 2009
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But even if we take his caricature as fact, mainstream marketing seems far more predictively useful than the Central Six.
Mainstream Marketing vs. the Central Six, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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The way science evolves is (typically or often) by the development of new, more predictively accurate and explanatory theories which supercede old theories.
Anomalies and ID 2006
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"We have lots of data, and lots of things we can try to model predictively," says Horvitz.
Tracking the News: A Smarter Way to Predict Riots and Wars 2008
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"We have lots of data, and lots of things we can try to model predictively," says Horvitz.
Tracking the News: A Smarter Way to Predict Riots and Wars 2008
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* Useful describes and explains observed phenomena, and can be used predictively
Science, Evolution, and Creationism (Free Book Download) Steve Caldwell 2008
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Thanks for your time and I look forward to you thanking me in the fall for being so predictively correct.
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It is a model, because it's intended to be used predictively.
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