cause and effect

Any science based on hypotheses inherits myriad flaws. These flaws include the idea that hypotheses, by design, drastically reduce the field and scope of exploration. In doing so, they fatally skew experimental results, so much so that they guarantee these results will translate poorly to individual, real world cases. A separate but equally problematic assumption…

Like most people, for much of my life, I took cause and effect for granted. Then I read David Hume’s take on this, and I’ve never recovered. Hume says you can never actually see cause and effect. You can only assume it exists, based on the sequence in which things unfold. Hence the Latin warning:…