From: Jef Allbright (jef@jefallbright.net)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 23:05:16 MST
Lee Corbin wrote:
> Well, then I (now) would say that if A *always* comes
> before B, what right to we have to say that A is not
> the cause of B? ("Always" is a powerful adverb.)
Well, it seems to me that if we try to go by that logic we will have to
admit that we never have enough data to know what *always* will happen. The
universe has been known to throw in a wild card time and again. That is the
problem with a certain class of inductive argument when trying to prove an
absolute.
- Jef
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