(June 17, 2015 at 12:38 pm)robvalue Wrote: You thought you probably would have coffee, you didn't know it for a fact
There is a difference between knowing something and causing that something to be. Generally speaking, knowledge of something is not a cause of that something. If I know that on 1 July 2015, there will be a full moon, that knowledge does not cause there to be a full moon at that time, and has no effect whatsoever on there being a full moon at that time. Knowing something about the future does not cause the future to be that way. Nevertheless, there are some things that one can know about the future.
Knowing something is not the same as causing it, and it is fallacious reasoning to believe otherwise.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.