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Atheism: The Case Against God - George H. Smith
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RE: Atheism: The Case Against God - George H. Smith
August 17, 2019 at 3:22 am (This post was last modified: August 17, 2019 at 3:24 am by GrandizerII.)
(August 17, 2019 at 2:52 am)Belaqua Wrote:
(August 17, 2019 at 2:41 am)Grandizer Wrote: Either way, it doesn't sound right. If you really know X will happen, and it ended up not happening, did you really know?

Like you could say that, given everything in the universe that has happened so far, war with China is going to begin tomorrow. 

If you knew that, you could take some action that would prevent it. 

Or if I could see that all past contingencies point to me getting in a bus accident on Tuesday, I could just stay home on Tuesday and avoid it.

Wouldn't that be soundly predicting as opposed to infallibly knowing?

And besides, if all past contingencies point to X, then they inevitably point to X.
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