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Non Causa Pro Causa
Chris Vancil — (archived)

Mistakes about event-level causation are the result of confusing coincidence with causation. Event C may occur at the same time as event E, or just before it, without being the cause of E. It may simply be happenstance that these two events occurred at about the same time. In order to find the correct event that caused an effect, we must reason from a causal law, which introduces the next level of causal reasoning:

http://gncurtis.home.texas.net/noncause.html

-There has never been a interplanetary Mars ship to cancel.

-When they cancelled the Saturn assemble lines they started the Space Shuttle design and had enough Saturns to complete the Apollo Moon landings.

-Actaully Nerva was cancelled in 1971 and it was from pressure from anti-nuke lobby and congress wanting to cut the budget.

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