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Future can be 6 days from now or 6 centuries from now. This statement is useless without specific details.


But by providing such details the statement goes from unknowable to unknown and potentially verifiable at some point.

Avoiding falsifiable statements is a skill set that might be worth having in your communications toolkit.

(I remember reading that some philosophy school had {True, false, unknown, unknowable} but, alas, cannot find any reference to that just now)


LOL. So you want everyone to become skillful in using weasel words? Spoken like a true weasel.


Huh. I Forgot the /s




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