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- How should we understand the oracles dilemma in making a prediction?
The Yes No answer (prediction) given by the oracle plays a dual role: As a physical influence on the deterministic world For instance, a "Yes" travels as some particular vibration of the air and reaches John's brain, causing certain changes and reactions there accordingly
- Can an entity predict itself? - Philosophy Stack Exchange
Regardless of the sentience of the entity, your free-will is at stake as well If an oracle (and, if we are honest with ourselves, an oracle is what you describe) can definitively say you will say X at time Y, will you have any capability to say anything else? Do you have the freewill to refuse? In theory the answer becomes no
- Do hypotheses need a “how” explanation or are predictions enough to . . .
Presumably, despite the successful predictions, we will not have a “how” explanation here, as we usually do in the case of physical explanations There would be no known way of understanding how, exactly, something immaterial creates a physical effect (if that is even coherent)
- Does Quine consider the Homeric gods to have predictive power?
Of course, we cannot check whether Greek gods really exist and if yes, whether they actually have this capability In addition, today there are no followers of Greek gods any longer, who would support the claim about predictive power :-) Added: See the comment of Dave concerning contemporary followers of antique Greek gods
- If past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior, can we . . .
Inductive reasoning is one of the main cornerstones of how we can predict anything about anything (and certainly a lot more goes into that than "guess work", even if this leads to the problem of induction, which there may be various responses to)
- history of philosophy - When the Oracle called Socrates the wisest of . . .
According to Plato's Apology, Socrates' life as the "gadfly" of Athens began when his friend Chaerephon asked the oracle at Delphi if anyone were wiser than Socrates; the Oracle responded that no-one was wiser Socrates believed the Oracle's response was not correct, because he believed he possessed no wisdom whatsoever
- philosophy of science - Is there any proof on whether technological . . .
There are fundamental constraints on some aspects of technological development For example, the last fifty or sixty years have been notable for continuing advances in the miniaturisation of electronics, giving us the cliché of your watch having more memory and power than a warehouse full of computers in the 1960s, but there is a hard limit on the road ahead, as electronic devices clearly can
- If a conclusion logically follows from premises that are true in the . . .
Your question hinges on the words "true in the world", and you specifically mention deductive logic Deductive logic has a special place because it is differenciated from all other kinds of logic (i e , inductive or abductive logic, which are more heuristic in nature) in that it is mathematically precise and, well, logical - it contains no methods that lead to a probabilistic answer
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