From: Steve Peterson (speterson@fast.net)
Date: Tue Dec 10 2002 - 01:23:50 GMT
>>Glen: OK. So what's linear causality?
>>
>
>
> erin:
>Now i think you are just giving me a hard time.
> I think of causality being about linear relationships.
> Why don't you explain to me what you think of
> causality?
>
> erin
Erin:
Let me see if I understand what you are saying.
A-B causality ("linear causality") means whenever A happens, B follows. B
follows A in time and if A didn't happen, B wouldn't have happened. (I take
it you meant linear in the sense of time? I was thrown off at first because
I thought you meant a particular type of mathematical relationship between
variables rather than linear as a geometric analogy for time. Maybe Glen
had the same confusion and wasn't trying to give you a hard time.)
Acausality then would be: A and B both occur simultaneously, but A didn't
cause B and B didn't cause A.
I don't think Glen would have a problem with that definition,but there is
something more to what you are describing, I think. A and B are related in
some other way as well. Right? How is an example of acausality identified
beyond two things happening at the same time.
Steve
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