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What does retrodict mean?

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Verb
  1. To attempt to estimate the previous state from the present.
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He has created a powerful device with the ability to predict the future and retrodict the past by tracking the position and vector of every particle in the universe.
Overriding the wilful ignorance of his past, he tapped into his present state as a means to retrodict what could have been in bygone days.
We come to realize that the criterion of simplicity is also at work when we retrodict as well as when we predict.
The only measure of success here is how well the models retrodict climate.
It gives one some ability to predict with justification further events, and likewise to retrodict and juxtadict.
We can, in other words, retrodict, and if we are good at it — if we can find a story that incorporates the events and fits their magnitude — we can bring the consolations of narrative to otherwise inexplicable occurrences.

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