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Friday, January 16, 2009

Determining cause

Superstitions are often attributed to bad reasoning techniques for determining causes, also known as causal fallacies, where when one act seems to cause another. For example, a dance that changes the weather or a coin in a fountain getting us that job we wanted. Similarly, we are also encouraged to think about the reverse; we seek the origins of our situation that are more obvious.

Here, Family Guy addresses not recognizing causes.

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