PHILOS 2CT3 Chapter Notes - Chapter Causality: List Of Countries By Intentional Homicide Rate, Confounding, Washing Machine
4 Mar 2018
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Cause and effect are some of the most universal elements in our explanations and reasoning, but also some of the most obscure. If by cause we simply mean an antecedent event that gives rise to another" it is very difficult to identify the cause of some event. Our world is filled with causal claims: but sometimes we"re are tempted to describe certain events as causes when we should not. Many causal claims are sloppy and erroneous. Causal networks are complex, and often one causal system interrupts or cofounds the effects of others. All causes are correlations but not all correlations are causes** The two may bear no causal relationship and be accidentally correlated. Non causa fallacy: post hoc ergo propter hoc = after this therefore because of this. This form of faulty causal reasoning = one of the most common. But, sometimes regular events are not causally related to one another.
