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#13 - Weaken

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 ashpine17
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-  Thu Jan 19, 2023 12:41 am #98962
i thought e was presenting a corelation not causation
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 ashpine17
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-  Fri Jan 20, 2023 6:48 pm #98978
ughh i thought e was just a correlation though.
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-  Fri Mar 03, 2023 7:40 pm #99420
ashpine17,

Correlation is evidence of causation. Undermining a correlation will undermine a cause-and-effect argument.: ttps://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/lr_causal-reasoning
A correlation alone does not prove a causal relationship, but it can suggest that a causal relationship does, in fact, exist.
This is the idea behind weakening a cause-and-effect argument by showing that the cause can exist without the effect, or the effect without the cause. This is showing a lack of correlation. That undermines the causal argument.

Robert Carroll
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