3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading (chapter 15), that we have not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
The normal conditions- for a causal claim, the normal conditions are the obvious and plausible unstated claims that are needed to establish that the relationship between purported cause and purported effect is valid or strong. In an argument, we need additional premises other known as normal conditions to show that the inference is valid or strong.
I found it interesting that for there to be cause and effect, there is no possible way for the cause to be true and the effect to be false- which as explained is the same with premises and conclusion of an argument. Therefore, when using additional premises in an argument, these premises will establish a correlation of generalization of determining the cause and effect.
Another thing I found interesting is that because the normal conditions cannot be specified for a general causal claim, statistical arguments are used to establish that there is some link between the cause an effect. There are three different concepts that are used for these arguments that I found very interesting to read into.
Hello. I also discussed about the normal conditions from Epstein's book. From what the book was saying, it's like people just look for the obvious claim to just make assumptions. Although I thought what you were trying to say was a bit confusing, I kind of figured out what you were talking about. I also agree with what you said about that if the cause is true, it does not mean that the effect is true. It could be false for all we know. Since it was not specific enough, people can misunderstand it. Keep up the good work even though this blog was a bit confusing.
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