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>The author seems to assume causation when the studies only indicate correlation. once I heard Feynmann say in a youtube video that (paraphrasal) "we don't kno
by fsckboy 1y ago
>The author seems to assume causation when the studies only indicate correlation.
once I heard Feynmann say in a youtube video that (paraphrasal) "we don't know what causes gravity, we just know that it exists, it's a property of matter"
then I realized, our experiments never show causation, they only show correlation. gravity has 100% (in our experience) correlation to matter. admittedly, that's a pretty good correlation, but for all we know, gravity causes matter. energy too, apparently.
- schoen 1y agoPhilosophers have worried for a long time about whether we can actually observe causation. David Hume was famous for arguing in An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding that we can't observe it and we instead have a "custom" or habit of expecting effects to follow causes. > After the constant conjunction of two objects—heat and flame, for instance, weight and solidity—we are determined by custom to expect the one from the appearance of the other. Religious philosophers have sometimes gone to the extreme of occasionalism, where they've maintained that patterns and regularities in nature were just habits or customs that God chooses to follow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionalism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occasionalism
- bluebarbet 1y agoSkipping punctuation makes your writing harder to parse. It's a false economy.
- fsckboy 1y agoi didn't skip any punctuation
- codedokode 1y agoYou skip uppercase letters though.