Jonny Thomson
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Shaaz :
I don’t see this as a problem though. We don’t need “100% certainty” that the sun will rise tomorrow. The likelihood is still very high; so high that it’s not even worth preparing for an alternative outcome. So for all practical purposes it may as well be certain.
2026-04-08 03:14:06
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brown :
The best Account i follow on this app
2026-04-07 14:23:29
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punch_the_clock :
It depends on scale; big things are just made up of smaller things and continue on. The more you can actually see, and verify on the smallest scales, then you do know as much as we can. Seeing as we can actually observe atoms and sub atomic particles, we can definitively say with high confidence that big things will actually occur. Change itself is just flux between states of physical matter
2026-06-04 20:20:29
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Markymarc :
But gravity works every time I’m on earth.
2026-05-02 19:44:11
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Mary Joyce Takali :
Hume has a point
2026-04-15 10:38:37
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Ksenia.scientia :
In the history and philosophy of science, falsifiability - a concept proposed by Karl Popper to address the shortcomings of induction method, has substantial support. It is also commonly used to demarcate science from non-science. Essentially, theories should be testable and capable of being refuted in order to be considered credible. Hence Popper’s passionate critique of psychoanalysis: no matter the outcome of a psychoanalytic test, it can always be interpreted as correct.
2026-04-07 20:16:10
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Angus :
I think most of philosophy is a category error in language. I never hear of eastern philosophy dealing with the same issues as western philosophy.
2026-04-09 07:35:09
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Farinx :
Well… He has a point, however pascal argument on probabilities says that the multiple variables and occurrences can be used to predict almost certain outcomes, like if the sun has risen for 300 days consecutively we can be almost know for clcertain the sun will rise on day 301, what do you think??
2026-04-07 22:18:28
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Christopher :
Absolutely love the problem of induction and a lot of people here in the comments are making a mistake. As the problem of induction doesn't just show you can't know something with 100% certainty. But specifically you can't know anything at all, even 1% certainty isn't possible.
2026-04-12 23:31:14
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Elitruck :
And that, I feel, is what makes science do beautiful. that every observation could be disproven inspires rigorous experimentation and openness to other opinions.
2026-04-07 14:23:42
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Abity :
I don't think the uncertainty arises from doubting our belief that whether or not 'the sun, for example, will rise tomorrow' is a 100% factual statement but forgetting a cycle of any sort, in this case the sun's cycle, will, some day, be encountered with a mathematically probability of expiration. That is because any cycle has an expiration date when a physical or chemical change occurs to the object( definitely not an eternal state) thereby changing the degree of certainty if a specific cycle will repeat itself again.
2026-04-14 01:44:23
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Miki🇿🇦 :
Hence why we predict not promise. Best predictor of future is relevant past. But agreed, no guarantees. Not with 100% certainty anyway
2026-04-07 15:40:44
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Cedrique :
1+5=6 will always be true.
2026-04-07 23:36:24
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iGhostEdd :
I'll let you know in the morning🥱
2026-04-07 22:17:39
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jlmichael :
if it doesn't rise we'll all be toast
2026-04-07 16:15:28
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thrilla :
induction in math is different requiring only that we have a mapping between the natural numbers or that the statement we are trying to show holds for any given case or that the truth of a case necessarily leads to the truth of a successor case where we've already shown a specific case to be true
2026-04-10 11:38:14
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Vinny :
We do know it will rise. We are just not certain. Hume’s problem is a certainty problem not a knowledge problem. Certainty is not a good standard for knowledge
2026-04-08 14:57:17
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tobyapples :
Which tomorrow? Eventually there will be a tomorrow when the sun doesn't rise.
2026-04-26 12:56:43
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ra_repertoire :
it will. until it doesn't. but i would be there for it. so it will
2026-04-11 03:19:15
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Gruby :
If we couldn’t really know, we wouldn’t have laws of nature. And those have never been violated. 😎
2026-04-09 09:14:29
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ronyn :
will i rise tomorrow from bed? 😴
2026-04-07 14:21:29
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Modern Stoic :
99.9999 percent certainty is enough to create our technology. Its never 100 percent
2026-04-07 18:42:51
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sinethemba chiya :
I am willing to bet that it will rise tomorrow. Are you willing to bet it won't?
2026-05-05 20:43:46
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Denials :
We need not mix categories of examples nor skip defining terms
2026-05-05 15:38:39
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BazzaMacKenzie :
But Hume is silly.
2026-05-23 14:58:50
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