At 3:27 PM -0500 11/21/04, Christopher D. Green wrote:
Someone, criticizing efficacy-of-relgions studies, wrote:

Correlation does not imply causation.

And then someone else, seeming to defend them, wrote:

I thought correlation doesn't PROVE causation.

And than Paul Brandon wrote:

A weaker inference.

The problem here is in the explication in the word "imply."

I was using the term in the dictionary sense of
" to involve or indicate by inference, association, or necessary consequence rather than by direct statement" -- not as in formal logic.
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