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Meaning of posdecir



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posdecir
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1st_ These are expressions typical of a misleading discourse, but they are considered true only because it was installed by a political and/or social actor, usually through the media. [N . A. : this definition has some irony. ] See post-truth . 2nd_ Neologism from the word "predict", such as "say someone who foreseed a fact, but after it happened", postdecir. It's almost a mockery of the one who does it, as if he wasn't believed. See predict the past. 3rd_ Contraction of the idiom "Well, say . . . " .

  



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POSDECIR started by the Spanish sociologist Loving Miguel for whom they claim a posteriori that a fact that no one foreseeed, but that they had been predictable. It is a contrast to the term predict. The expression predicting the past is also used.

  










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