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Posted by Miss Field on April 28, 19104 at 11:49:14:
In Reply to: cause and effect posted by maria on April 06, 19101 at 07:09:52:
I believe his point was not that it is unnecessary, but rather that it can not be proven that A causes B. Instead, it may be observed that B constantly follows A, and if B follows A in the absence of anything else which may cause B, then A can be thoguht of as causing B. however, we do not know that there was nothing else that could have caused by B, neither can we observe every instance of A to see that B always follows it, but rather we observe a finite number of instances of B following A. Thus, you cannot extrapolate that B always follows A (due to problem of induction) and thus you will never have sufficent evidence to say that A does in fact cause B.
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