US courts by 1910s legalized only uncertainty-accepting predictions

Evidence

Pietruska (2017) notes that “state courts ruling on antidivination prosecutions by the 1910s disallowed predictions that made claims to certainty but permitted those that acknowledged their own indeterminacy, thereby constructing a new legal framework for fortune-telling that accepted uncertainty embedded in claims of occult foreknowledge” (201). — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 461

Categorization

• SEED: Article angle: the legal genealogy of when uncertainty became legally respectable—from fortune-tellers to option traders’ disclaimers.
• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does this 1910s legal acceptance of indeterminacy prefigure the normalization of speculative uncertainty in finance and dating apps?