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PART-3a: The Categories of Legitimate Reservation (1)  [41 slides]
  • The “Rules of the Game”
  • The Importance of Clear Communication
  • Category 1: Clarity
    • Examples
    • Test for Clarity
  • Category 2: Entity Existence
    • Examples
    • Test for Entity Existence
  • Category 3: Causality Existence
    • Examples
    • Correlation Versus Cause-and-Effect
    • Examples
    • Statistical Correlations
    • Test for Causality Existence
  • Raising Reservations: What Order?
  • Exercises
 
 
PART-3b: The Categories of Legitimate Reservation (2)  [44 slides]
  • Category-4: Cause Insufficiency
    • Example: “We have a fire!”
    • The Concept of “Oxygen” in Logic Trees
    • How Many Contributing Causes?
    • Variations of Multiple Dependent Causes
    • A Proposed “Rule of Thumb”
    • Test for Cause Sufficiency
  • Category-5: Additional Cause
    • Realistic Versus Probable
    • Examples
    • Test for Additional Cause
  • Complex Causality (Magnitudinal “AND”)
  • Category-6: Cause-Effect Reversal
    • Examples
    • Test for Cause-Effect Reversal
  • Category-7: Predicted Effect Existence
    • Examples
    • Test for Predicted Effect Existence
  • Category-8: Tautology
    • Examples
    • Test for Tautology
  • Raising Reservations: Review
  • Example: The Buffalo Theory
  • Exercises
  • The “Final Exam”