Re: Can we have knowledge of the future?
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If you accept only deductive reasoning as being justified, then we cannot have knowledge of the future.
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Tomorrow, nothing will exist which is both red all over, and green all over.
This is a conclusion I arrived at through deductive means.
I know it to be true. Its about the future.
So to answer the OP's question, ya we can have knowledge about the future.
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Your statement isn't about the future. It's about word definitions.
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No its a statement about a future state of affairs, ie the future. It requires some discussion of definitions to justify but thats not relevant to what it is about.
Take the statement: In the future pigs will fly.
Using your line of reasoning this statement is not about the future, its about definitions? (or maybe you would say pigs) It seems obvious to me its about both the future and pigs.
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