(April 12, 2016 at 8:29 pm)snowtracks Wrote: Vera causa* - The principle holds that explaining a particular effect or event requires the sufficiency to produce the phenomenon in question.
* “A fairy godmother may be assigned in story as the cause of certain marvelous effects, but is not a vera causa." http://www.seadict.com/en/en/vera%20causa
What is the difference between a god and a Faerie Godmother?
You make people miserable and there's nothing they can do about it, just like god.
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
