Q&A: A Question About Causality
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A Question About Causality
Question
Hello,
The question is about the debate: you said there that causality cannot be seen from empirical observation alone, but that the source of our understanding of it is reason. If so, what things can in fact be inferred from empirical observation alone? A relation of correlation? Also, for the sake of example, let’s take a glass ball that falls to the floor and breaks—if the connection between the things is not causality, what else could it be? Coincidence? Correlation alone?
Answer
Indeed, correlation.
Absolutely.