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expectation

expectation Expectation is the belief that a future experience will have a particular character, grounded in past experience.

Expectation is the belief that a future experience will have a particular character, grounded in past experience. In this historical account, it involves having in mind a connected train of ideas about what is coming and treating it as something that can be confirmed through further experience or action.

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Drafting source: Baldwin Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology, 1901. 1901 New York Macmillan original; archive index checked 2026-10-18. “Expectation” (Expectation).
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