I have talked to some people before and asked them their opinion on this question. "If I say today that the sun will rise tomorrow, can I be right or wrong about this statement at the moment I speak it?" Basically people adhere to one of two main arguments. The first, and in my experience the most common, is that it is not capable of being a true or false statement; since it refers to something that has not happened, it can not have its validity determined (and therefore cannot exist). The second idea, which I hold, is that the statement is true or false (depending on what happens the next day) you just can't know that you're right or wrong.
I believe that it is possible to be right without knowing it. I would never say someone can KNOW the sun will rise tomorrow, but their statement of whether it will or not is either true or false. This belief comes from my understanding of how time works, as well as cause and effect. Understanding that time is a measurement of reality, and that physics obeys a cause and effect system of functioning, I believe that many aspects of reality can really only happen a certain way. I will NOT be going into determinism and moral responsiblity and free will, I am just talking about the world and truth. Anyway, I believe that because there is inevitably a way that things will go, AND a reason that it will have to go that way, there is truth or falsity right away, and it does not require that the person speaking it know the truth.
I have had this idea in my head that some people seek truth without knowledge. It seems that some people want to come up with ideas that make sense, but cannot yet be confirmed. Yet they hold to these ideas in the belief that they MAY be right, rather than saying that they are neither right or wrong. I seem to feel that if there is a truth out there about something, I'd like to think I've considered it, and not just assumed that because it can't be confirmed it is irrelevant or disproven. Whoa, this is moving to religion, and I am not trying to go that far...
Basically I feel I may write a book or something someday about the desire for our rational intellect to be right without knowing that we're right. It's how philosophy functions, it's how new ideas come to fruition, and it is what drives people to seek truths that seemed totally out of reach. I admire those who seek to find that which is believed to not exist or be possible, and inevitably forward science and technology, as well as philosophy and theology.
And call be crazy, but I think a zombie outbreak is going to happen. And I might be right about that.
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