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- From: nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller)
- Subject: Re: What the Trilateralists truly intend
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.164254.8004@starbase.trincoll.edu>
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- Organization: Trinity College, Hartford, CT.
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 16:42:54 GMT
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- In article <1jtmfgINNs3m@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> aq817@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Steve Crocker) writes:
- >
- >You should be aware that allegations of causality which
- >suggest a CAUSAL MECHANISM are not legitimately dissmissed as though their
- >only support were correlation and time sequence. The suggested mechanism
- >may be IMPLAUSIBLE, but the responsible critic should not dismiss it as though
- >it had not been suggested. He or she should properly attempt to SHOW that it
- >is implausible.
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- Question: why is it up to the "responsible critic" to
- do the work of testing a proposal, especially one
- which its defenders themselves label "implausible"?
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