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5 Sep 2024 13:16:23 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Cause and Effect again  
From: Doctor John
Date: 10 Sep 2009 06:22:18
Message: <4aa8d35a@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   "Post hoc ergo propter hoc" means "since that event followed this one,
> that event must have been caused by this one".
> 
>   "Cum hoc ergo propter hoc" means that correlation between two variables
> does not automatically imply that one causes the other.
> 
>   In this particular case I think the latter fits better.
> 

I stand corrected. As is obvious ... IANAL. :-)

John
-- 
"Eppur si muove" - Galileo Galilei


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