• rainrain@sh.itjust.worksOP
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      16 days ago

      But underlining the obvious is so much work on a cellphone.

      Ok, I expounded elsewhere in this thread. Look for the big one.

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        16 days ago

        If you don’t want to engage in discourse, why even start a thread?

        But ok, you think that events don’t happen because they’re instigated by something else. If I push a domino over, it falls. If I didn’t cause it, what do you think did?

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          16 days ago

          Well I was hoping that we would jump straight to discussing the idea instead of spending time explaining it.

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            16 days ago

            If you’d explained things more articulately to begin with it would have saved you a lot of time!

            Ok, you’re not dismissing cause and effect as a whole (i.e. You believe if I pushed a domino over and it fell, I caused it to fall) but don’t believe cause and effect necessarily applies when the effect is the result of a transaction. There are often circumstances where multiple causes result in an effect. e.g. I hadn’t been sleeping well, hadn’t been eating properly and caught a cold, with the effect of failing an exam.