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?
Exactly like how I can confidently predict your perfect spontaneous anarchist revolution won’t happen to tomorrow, no matter how much you insist that “it could”
do I want to bet that you don’t know the future? absolutely. here’s a proof.
qed
edit: oh fuck. I was supposed to bet something. how about a loaf of bread?
Meteorologists must enrage you; “how dare you think you can predict the future!”
are you suggesting that Marxist revolutionary theory is a science like meteorology? it’s not.
Are you suggesting that meteorologists can predict the future?
I’m saying they can’t know the future.
They can’t perfectly predict the future in the same way that meteorologists can’t, but both beat a coin flip by a mile.
“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.
And yet there they are, predicting the future anyway. That must be very upsetting for you.
they can predict all they want. they can’t know, though.
Exactly like how I can confidently predict your perfect spontaneous anarchist revolution won’t happen to tomorrow, no matter how much you insist that “it could”
i don’t really want the loaf of bread. please give it to someone who does though.