That does lend itself to knowing a lot, but if you are prescient in the present, you already see that there is no past or future. The time is always NOW. That is prescience. That is TOTAL prescience.
tran·scen·den·tal·ism
[ˌtran(t)ˌsenˈden(t)lˌizəm]
NOUN
(Transcendentalism)
an idealistic philosophical and social movement which developed in New England around 1836 in reaction to rationalism. Influenced by romanticism, Platonism, and Kantian philosophy, it taught that divinity pervades all nature and humanity, and its members held progressive views on feminism and communal living. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were central figures.
a system developed by Immanuel Kant, based on the idea that, in order to understand the nature of reality, one must first examine and analyze the reasoning process which governs the nature of experience.
Then we have the EASTERN take. The real deal. You go within. You have a guru that you follow that is a MASTER of what you seek and you follow that study for as long as it takes to come to an awareness that you are part and parcel of ALL. All is ALL and all is everything that has and will ever exist.
That is prescience. That is something none of us has any handle on.