Future is beyond us, but chaos must not decide our president

Policemen and residents help a young schoolgirl that inhaled tear gas as the police were trying to hold off a group of supporters of opposition leader while protesting in Kawangware on October 30, 2017 in Nairobi. [File, Standard]

Ceteris paribus, some things will happen. Ceteris paribus; everything being equal, holding everything constant. That is part of the Latinism that they taught you in high school.

They said if you held everything constant, you could draw accurate conclusions concerning the future. But you soon learned that ceteris paribus was a philosophical fallacy. For nothing is constant, except change; nothing certain, except uncertainty.