Imagine that there exists a fortune teller, who is able to see what will happen in the future with an almost perfect accuracy. — Mizumono
Imagine that there exists a fortune teller, who is able to see what will happen in the future with an almost perfect accuracy. — Mizumono
Considering this, it would mean that the fortune teller is in fact, not able to undertake any action that would be spontaneous and thus, that the future is inevitable, because he will never be able to change any future event. — Mizumono
Well, you leave a loophole when you qualify the prediction as almost perfectly accurate. With this loophole in place, there is always a possibility that any prediction is wrong, and thus the rest of the reasoning doesn't go through.
If by spontaneous decisions you mean those decisions that the fortune teller did not foresee, then there may still be room for those. But they will not change whatever he correctly predicted.
There isn't a right or wrong answer to the question, so I wouldn't worry about it too much.
$whathappenstomorrow = 'XYZ corporation goes bankrupt due to a major malfunction in their newest project resulting in multiple fatalities.'; $isbad = checkifBad( $whathappenstomorrow ); if ( $isbad ) { runExtensiveSafetyChecksAndTests( 'new project' ); }
$whathappenstomorrow = 'XYZ corporation becomes one of the most successful companies in the world due to their newest project becoming a resounding success.';
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