The part that I found most interesting in the reading is Criteria for cause and effect this seem most useful because it not only tells what is necessary but furthers the explanation of what “cause and effect” is. In Critical thinking by Richard L. Epstein it says gives the list needed for the cause and effect: the cause happened, the effect happened, the cause preceded the effect, almost impossible for cause to happen and effect not to happen given normal conditions, the cause makes a difference, there is no common cause (307). The “summery” says that a cause and effect is composed of those things so if it does not have them then it is not a cause and effect. It explains that a cause and effect has two parts that have to happen which are the cause and the effect. Then further says that the effect must happen after the cause and that there is no almost no possible way for the cause to happen and the effect not to take place. Furthermore, it points out that there can no be any other reason for the effect besides the cause.
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