Well, you will notice that in addition to the preface "Quite aside from the fact..." I did place "correlation doesn't imply causation" in scare quotes. We needn't belabor this rhetorical and even philosophical morass to accept the priority of moral agency in respecting the humanity of others.
On Fri, Oct 4, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote: > James Bowery <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Quite aside from the fact that "correlation doesn't imply causation", >> > > Actually it does, as David Hume pointed out. In natural science, that is > pretty much all you have to go on in many cases. > > - Jed > >
