They would have seen it coming

A comedian once showed a newspaper to his audience. The title read, "1-800 Astrology Business goes by: They should have seen coming." Everyone laughed, including me. We giggled the irony of a real contradiction here. If such a company could provide the service they claim, then its owners should have succeeded where other companies failed. In fact, if she knew the future that probably will not bother with this business at all. They would simply raid the stock market with a record of perfect investment. We are all a bit 'instinctively know, even those of us who have never had the opportunity to sit down and think carefully.

But this pseudo-science is another problem that concerns us. And 'members that create the horoscope columns garden-variety (found in most any newspaper) spotlights a basic contradiction. On the one hand, they pretend to tell your future based on the time of your birth and alignment of the stars or planets. Philosophers have called this hypothesis "astral determinism."

This simply means that the stars and planets determine your future, hence the phrase, "written in the stars." On the other hand, however, when the predictors finish telling only what hit you, move on the next column. Offer advice. But this advice can take or leave, as if you have a free choice to make, the outcome of which determines any star.

So they take the astral determinism, if the prediction, and then take her hand, when consulting. One simply can not have both. The only way to resolve this contradiction comes from the blue to say that determine some things but not others. This avoids contradictory impulses, however, at the cost of engaging a purely arbitrary (choose whichever you like) approach to what stars do not determine your life. Yet their rankings promise a principle (not arbitrary) way to know the future. Therefore, this option does not progress logically.

In both cases, therefore, the assumptions necessary for the trade of star-traffickers are shown false. All this proves a mirage useless. astral determinism is therefore a false idea, and we can prove this with a little logical rigor.

Finally then, we want to add insult to injury mystical logic by noting that our rejection of astral determinism is a problem quite clear and evident to their business. And like the bugs that can not completely avoid the windshield fast approaching - that should have seen it coming.