The detective means: we must have the ability to infer, or even reconstruct, historical truth from the clues and traces of known facts.
The prophet means: we must have the ability to speculate about the unknown based on what is already known.
History: restoring the truth of the past from known evidence and learning lessons from it.
Mathematics: the science of solving for the unknown based on the known.
First published 2023-10-01 05:32:35