• Sybil@lemmy.world
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      8 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?

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          8 months ago

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

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                8 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.

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                  8 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.

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                    8 months ago

                    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”