• Sybil@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    do I want to bet that you don’t know the future? absolutely. here’s a proof.

    knowledge is defined as a justified true belief.
you can't have evidence about the future because it hasn't happened.
truth claims about the future have no value because it hasn't happened.
there is no justification that can produce knowledge about the future.

you don't know the future.

    qed

    edit: oh fuck. I was supposed to bet something. how about a loaf of bread?

      • Sybil@lemmy.world
        13·
        9 months ago

        are you suggesting that Marxist revolutionary theory is a science like meteorology? it’s not.

            • davelAEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              They can’t perfectly predict the future in the same way that meteorologists can’t, but both beat a coin flip by a mile.

              • Sybil@lemmy.world
                11·
                9 months ago

                “predict” is moving the goalposts. i said they can’t know, and they asked if i wanted to bet. i know that they can’t know the future.