Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Cause and Effect Website
The cause and effect website gives an example of a bicyclist illegally moving into the traffic lane which causes a driver to slam on its break. The first car slamming on its break causes car behind it to rear end them. Using inductive reasoning, the arguments are that the bicyclist caused the accident or the first car caused the accident. All of these arguments have the form of an inductive argument. The website said that it is very likely for causation to occur in the real world. I thought it was useful to know the two rules of causation which are that "the cause must precede the effect in time" and "even a strong correlation is insufficient to prove causation." I also thought it was usefull to know that causal arguements use both difference and commonality reasoning. In conlusion, even though we have already learned about cause and effect. This website helped to give more information on cause and effect. It is good to know more details about it in order to fully grasp the concept.
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Good post about the Cause and Effect website, Rossi! I also agree with how the website about cause and effect was usual in giving more detail to fully understand the concept about causal arguments. The example about the bicyclist was interesting to see how the book analysis it and gives us insight on how people or the insurance company may argue about what caused what to occur to see whose fault it was. Also to add to what you mentioned about difference and commonality reasoning, those are very useful to causal arguments. It helps us see the connection between two events and to see what was the similar causes for events to occur. This helps us come to an argument of the cause and effect of events.
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