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<p>Future events are necessarily <a href="page.php?w=uncertainty">uncertain</a>, so guaranteed accurate information about the future is impossible. Prediction can be useful to assist in making <a href="page.php?w=planning">plans</a> about possible developments.</p>

<p><big>Opinion</big></p>
<p>In a non-statistical sense, the term "prediction" is often used to refer to an <a href="page.php?w=hypothesis">informed guess or opinion</a>.</p>

<p>A prediction of this kind might be informed by a predicting person's <a href="page.php?w=abductive_reasoning">abductive reasoning</a>,</p><p>
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