ABSTRACT
In prediction, though there may be identity of content, the emphasis is always from later to earlier: the prediction is considered as having no importance independently of the event which is its fulfilment. The quickest way would be to say that the event which is foretold in the prediction is the same event which 'happens'. To deny that events are predictable with certainty is not to deny all connectedness. A very simple example can be taken to show that the two aspects are consistent. Causality, however, is based on induction, and the logical validity of this process is very often impugned. It may be said that the uncertainty of its predictions is to be explained in terms of this imperfect logical process rather than in terms of its reference to events. Mathematical and logical relations, then, have no past, present, and future, and consequently, there is no 'prediction' in the literal meaning of the word.
