reincarnator07 posted...
You're conflating "any" with "every", which I can only assume is intentional because you are irritatingly specific with your wording.
Yes, and? "I can refute any link" is equivalent to "I can refute every link." It is not equivalent to "I can refute one link." And I was being specific with my wording on every single post I made regarding your claim, precisely so that you couldn't weasel out of it by changing its meaning (as you just tried to).
ReturnOfDevsman posted...
Logically speaking, "implication" means it's impossible for the cause to be true and the effect to be false. So no, implication doesn't
imply
causation.
Science isn't a logic puzzle. Neither is statistics. These deal in probabilities, not absolute truth values. A statement like "correlation implies causation" can have exceptions and still be generally correct.
Also, logically speaking, there's a difference between "correlation implies causation" and "correlation always implies causation." And a difference between "correlation doesn't imply causation" and "correlation never implies causation."
it's possible for the correlation to be there but the cause to actually be something else.
That would still count as implying a cause. The correlation isn't the cause, but it implies another one.