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- noun One who is involved in the field of
psychohistory .
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Examples
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Finally, the reader is entitled to know that Mr. Mazlish's career as a "psychohistorian" is more extensive than I had the space to indicate in my essay.
An Exchange on Psychohistory Mazlish, Bruce 1973
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Anyway, Dornick is there to accept a job with the famous mathematician / psychohistorian Hari Seldon.
BestScienceFictionStories.com » Post Topic » The Foundation Project: The Psychohistorians 2010
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But I'm sure a psychohistorian would say that this is a good thing, a way to make sure that the bad times don't last as long as they could.
Fairy Tale Re-Mix - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009
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Foundation fans will recall that not too long ago, Columbia won the rights for the trilogy of books with Emmerich attached to direct, which as I wrote back in January, centers around a mathematician named Hari Seldon, a psychohistorian who is able to predict large-scale events using scientific principles.
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Those "few fortunate children" need to compound the "late historical achievement" by enlightening others if, as another psychohistorian, Jerrold Atlas, writes, they wish to end the "race between too slowly improving childrearing and too fast evolving destructive technology."
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DefJef, psychohistorian an arcane allusion to Foundation?
Firedoglake » Late Night FDL: The Fork in the Road – The Right and Race Online 2006
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Eron Osa, a psychohistorian, is sentenced to death for an crime he can not remember. but death here is not physical - it's the destruction of all his enhancements, the machine that makes him who he is.
The Friday Lunchtime "Waiting For The Bid Review Meeting" Review: Psychohistorical Crisis sbisson 2002
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Thirdly, another objection that Crews seems to have is against the concepts of resistance and denial — "With the concepts of resistance and denial ready at hand, the psychohistorian can place his central dramatic emphasis wherever he pleases."
High Tide Mollinger, Robert 1976
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Speaker Gingrich told me that he became a historian because he read Isaac Asimov's seven-volume Foundation series about a mathematician and psychohistorian from Planet Trantor "who looked at long sweeps of history and tried to understand probable patterns of behavior."
NYT > Home Page By MAUREEN DOWD 2011
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Emmerich's three involve psychohistorian Hari Selden's setting up the
Empire News 2010
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