Causal Reasoning
Generally speaking, there are seven types of thought experiments in which one reasons from causes to effects, or effects to causes:
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Famous quotes containing the words causal and/or reasoning:
“There is the illusion of time, which is very deep; who has disposed of it? Mor come to the conviction that what seems the succession of thought is only the distribution of wholes into causal series.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“Accuracy is, in every case, advantageous to beauty, and just reasoning to delicate sentiment. In vain would we exalt the one by depreciating the other.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)