Prophecy in Context

The Antichrist in Prophecy

The designation "Antichrist," appearing only in the epistles of John (1 John 2:18, 22; 4:3; 2 John 7), is made up of the Greek words anti ("against, in place of") and christos ("Christ"), and indicates any agent of the evil one (Satan) who acts contrary to or as a counterfeit of God's Anointed who is destined to rule the world in the end time (Psalm 2:2, 6-8; 110:1-2; Isaiah 9:6-7, et. al.). Th...

The Prophecy of Undo

Prophecy variables are auxiliary program variables whose values are defined in terms of current program state and future behavior. This paper explains their relevance to reasoning about systems with “undo” operations, and develops techniques that facilitate their use.

Prelude, prophecy, and promise.

Computation by Prophecy

We describe a new method to represent (partial) recursive functions in type theory. For every recursive definition, we define a co-inductive type of prophecies that characterises the traces of the computation of the function. The structure of a prophecy is a possibly infinite tree, which is coerced by linearisation to a type of partial results defined by applying the delay monad to the co-domai...

Predicting prognosis in cardiac surgery: a prophecy?

Physicians need to make predictions on the prognosis of a treatment that helps them in the choice of therapy. Medicine used to be much more subjective than in the current evidence-based era. Shared decision-making, where physicians and patients both participate in deciding on choices for therapy, is also more common [1]. Clinical prediction models like EuroSCORE may provide the evidence-based i...