Editing Postdiction (section)

===Cognitive science===
In [[cognitive science]], postdiction is the justification process that allows a reader to make sense of a concept in a given context.<ref>Upal, M. A. (2005). Role of context in memorability of intuitive and counterintuitive concepts. In B. Bara, L. Barsalou, & M. Bucciarelli (Eds.). Proceedings of the 27th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2224–2229). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.</ref>  The term was coined by psychologist [[Walter Kintsch]] in 1980<ref>Kintsch, W. (1980). Learning from text, levels of comprehension, or: Why would anyone read a story anyway.
Poetics, 9, 89–98.</ref> and refined by cognitive scientist [[Afzal Upal]] in 2005. Heath & Heath used Upal's definition without explicitly citing him in their 2007 book ''[[Made to Stick]]''. Concepts that can be justified in a given context are called [[postdictable]].