(October 12, 2015 at 11:58 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Take a look at the causal inference in the transposition, whereby...a report in the paper -tommorrow- seems to have some effect on whether or not a ship crashes -tonight-. It's all on the up and up, of course, textbook even. Has it ever been the case, in your experience, that some event "x" tommorrow was the cause of some outcome "y" today?
Nevertheless, armed with this valid form, loaded up with sound propositions - have you abandoned your belief in asymmetric time and cause?
Well... first, I don't think that a newspaper report has causal sufficiency to crash a ship (at least not directly, perhaps as a secondary cause through misinformation).
Secondly, I was say that your transposition is a demonstration of the principle of causality in making an inference, not a causal force. Lastly, a lack of a report in the newspaper does not necessarily mean that a ship has not crashed.
So, as of yet, I don't think I'm ready to rid myself of asymmetric time and cause.
