Meanings
- uncountableInability to be predicted or anticipated.
No man is responsible for that which no man can control. (The unforeseeability defense).
2009 December 6, Matt Richtel, “A Victim’s Daughter Takes the Cellphone Industry to Court”, in New York Times, retrieved 20 Sep 20112 more examples
An Indiana appellate court, affirming a lower court’s decision, dismissed the suit, for reasons that include the unforeseeability of the accident.
2003 May 28, Jim Porter, "Making sense of the rules of law," www.sierrasun.com (retrieved 20 Sep. 2011)This is what Derrida calls the ‘messianic’ structure of experience. . . the tacit possibility that the ‘other’ (or otherness) may surprise one. . . . [T]he very structure of experience exhibits this unforeseeability.
2009, Bert Olivier, Philosophy and Psychoanalytic Theory: Collected Essays, →ISBN, pages 139–140Synonyms: unforeseeableness · Antonyms: foreseeability, foreseeableness
Synonyms & antonyms
nounInability to be predicted or anticipated.
Origin
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