ClaimsSteven Pinker

“Will it come back? I think probably not.”

Steven Pinker, interviewee 24 September 2025 Steven Pinker on Coordination, Common Knowledge, and the Retreat of Liberal Enlightenment (Conversations with Tyler) archived copy

Prediction Philosophy, ethics and society

Legal, open slavery will probably not come back.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Prediction: Statements about events outside the person's control, checked once they fell due: did they come true?

Reasoning

Hedged prediction with no horizon; cannot be settled.

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Steven Pinker, “Legal, open slavery will probably not come back.” (said 24 September 2025). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_bbd8759d33c4, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_bbd8759d33c4

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