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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Names of New Macintoshes (now: Knowledge Navigator)
Summary: Actually, the Knowledge Navigator video is somewhat funny...
Keywords: knowledge navigator
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Date: 18 Apr 89 19:01:14 GMT
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As I remember the video, one scene stands out: the professor, working with
another professor, runs two simulations in parallel: Amazon Basin
deforestation and Sahara Desert advance.  Based on the pictures, which
showed them advancing at a comparable time/rate, he deduces that there is
a cause-effect relationship.  Without other evidence, it seems to me
that he made an (I forget the Latin) "it happened before, therefore it
caused" error in reasoning.  Whether there really is such an effect, I
do not know, but I think the video might illustrate how more sophisticated
does not make more correct.


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)