Ep 132: David Deutsch’s ”The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 7 ”A Conversation about Justification”. Part 2
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Is There a Difference Between Prediction and Prophecy?
When you hear about people talking about the distant future and some exisdential catastrophe that's on the way, they're engaged in pure prophecy. And i think it's good for people to be worried about certain problems to day that could have an effect in decades to come. But making prophecies about this particular thing actually happening o, that's wrong. That's the distinction between prediction and prophecy. The crypto inductivistis so in view of that, i repeat, the whole prob is to find what does justify the prediction. That is the problem of induction.
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