{"id":82,"date":"2026-01-17T11:29:58","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omoo.nl\/?p=82"},"modified":"2026-01-17T11:29:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T11:29:58","slug":"on-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/17\/on-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"On the past"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Can we make meaningfull statements about the past? Has the past happened in ways that could not have been otherwise?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If we answer the second affirmitavely statements like &#8220;the chances of event x happening is 1\/n&#8221; are nonsensical since the event should happen with probability 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can we make meaningfull statements about the past? Has the past happened in ways that could not have been otherwise? If we answer the second affirmitavely statements like &#8220;the chances of event x happening is 1\/n&#8221; are nonsensical since the event should happen with probability 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harmenscholte.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}