causation (Introduction)

by GateKeeper , Monday, June 02, 2014, 00:42 (3616 days ago) @ David Turell

"by chance" is an unpredictable outcome to me. Within a set of conditions that is.-I quote rom.-"... by chance as something I can't predict accurately ..." This is different than a cause to me. When I use "chance" as a cause I usually wrap it around the limiting set of answers and we really can't predict the outcome.-"Why did it land on heads?" ... The reason is chance? I don't like it. I can't make a prediction other than using stat. And that only really limits the possible solutions to me. Or it implies to many initial conditions for me to know the one cause it landed heads that time. "I don't know why that time it landed on heads" keeps coming up in my head. -I can use chance to predict a set of outcomes. But that seems different to me.