ur 'bacause' is correct, transitivity is an a-okay-number-1 causality, but that is a reason this define rox, not sux! if I say A causes B, its perfectly okay for lots of crazy unknown stuff to happen between A and B.
if A is turning the crank in Milton Bradley's "Mousetrap" game, and B is mouse capture, I don't relly care about all the stuff that happens in between, I just say turn crank causes mouse capture!!!
there is something called 'direct cause' where u hold other variables constant, but thats just the other variables in ur causal model, not all possible variables in the universe or whatever! |
