#13 - Weaken

[ashpine17]

i thought e was presenting a corelation not causation

[ashpine17]

ughh i thought e was just a correlation though.

[Robert Carroll]

ashpine17,

Correlation is evidence of causation. Undermining a correlation will undermine a cause-and-effect argument.: ttps://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/lr_causal-reasoning

A correlation alone does not prove a causal relationship, but it can suggest that a causal relationship does, in fact, exist.

This is the idea behind weakening a cause-and-effect argument by showing that the cause can exist without the effect, or the effect without the cause. This is showing a lack of correlation. That undermines the causal argument.

Robert Carroll