Cause and Effect

The cause and effect reading from the website had a lot of helpful tips. The example about the car accident was simple and made it easy to understand their reasoning. I never realized how a cause and effect relationship could be a form of inductive reasoning until after reading the given information. However unlike in inductive reasoning where the assumption is that there is otherwise no significant difference between the premises in cause and effect reasoning the implication is that there is only one significant difference. There are two rules to remember when deciding if you’re dealing with causation. The first is that the cause must precede the event in time. The second rule is that even if there is a strong correlation, it is insufficient to prove causation. In the exercises that went along with the examples I learned even more about this type of reasoning because if I clicked on the wrong answer rather than just telling me it’s incorrect it provides a brief description of why my answer is incorrect.