Anticipation
Anticipation
(Lat. ante, before + capere, to take) The foreknowledge of future events and experiences. Anticipation, in contrast to expectation, is allegedly immediate and non-inferential cognition of the future. See Expectation; Foreknowledge. — L.W.
In Lucretius, the Scholastics, Fr. Bacon, and Leibniz, it means a hypothesis without confirmation.