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From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark)
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Subject: Re: more on what religious states are for
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Date: 22 Feb 91 18:39:41 GMT
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In article <9102211738.aa19500@ICS.UCI.EDU> honig@ICS.UCI.EDU (David Honig) writes:
+
+Watch your logic!  It sound to me as though you are not making a distinction
+between causality and coincidence.  Just because some trait may be more
+..
+be an unassociated coincidence.  For example, if you graph the incidence of
+cancer and the per capita consumption of CocaCola, you would find a very
+good relationship between those two items.  However, in numerous well

Personally I like the following inference:

Women who take estrogen are less likely to be murdered, therefore
estrogen prevents murder.

Otherwise, start with David Hume, and follow the empericists for the
last 250 years.

-- 

John Clark
jclark@ucsd.edu


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