alt Hacker NewsI thought a "prediction" was something about the future. But Darwin, if I understand correctly, classified the plant as carnivorous. As it is the title makes you think the plant turned carnivorous since Darwin made his prediction; and make you think Darwin said "This plant will soon become carnivore". But what happened is that his statement has been confirmed, not that the plant changed.
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legulere • today at 11:09 AM
Darwin probably didn’t know this exact species but only other species of the same family and predicted that there are/were some members of the family that are carnivorous
jdiff • today at 11:27 AM
We have been able to predict properties of elements that had not been isolated yet. Your definition is too narrow.
I think prediction is about something you don't know. What happens in the future is that you might come to know.
For example, we predict that there is gold in X location.