I don’t think anyone is contesting that it’s possible to predict the future.
The real issue here is making good far-future forecasts concerning things (or ideas, patterns, arrangements, etc.) that do not exist yet—and here I don’t think the Arrhenius example provides even a weak argument.
I don’t think anyone is contesting that it’s possible to predict the future.
The real issue here is making good far-future forecasts concerning things (or ideas, patterns, arrangements, etc.) that do not exist yet—and here I don’t think the Arrhenius example provides even a weak argument.