I'm not certain of specific things such as my parents' everlasting love for me — Joker25
If the future still hasn't arrived, can I know for sure what's going to happen? I know belief in future events by itself can create certainty for some people, but how can I exclude the possibility of being wrong if the future is yet to arrive? It's a question that, every now and then, comes to mind and I still don't have a definite answer for it. Sometimes I feel bothered by the absence of an answer, thinking about how I'm not certain of specific things such as my parents' everlasting love for me. — Joker25
Leave the future alone if you're looking for certainty because certainty isn't possible for even the present or the past. As Bertrand Russell once said the universe could've sprung into existence 5 minutes ago with false memories of the past. Certainty isn't possible. — TheMadFool
It is inferences that are uncertain, whereas a report can only be considered to be false in the sense of violating our conventions for communicating reports.
But is there a clear distinction between inferences and reports? For example, is the sentence "It appears that the dark clouds are about to rain" a necessarily uncertain inference or a necessarily true report? — sime
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