Benito comments on The Comedy of Behaviorism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benito 30 May 2013 06:17:27PM 0 points [-]

On the hypothesis that the subject becomes angry, and wants to hurt the other person, we might predict that the subject will > take any of many possible avenues to revenge - a kick, a trip, a bite, a phone call two months later that leads the confederate's wife and girlfriend to the same hotel... All of these I can predict by saying, "The subject is angry, and wants revenge."

Is it not fake causality to show a variety of different outcomes, all for the exact same reason?

Or perhaps is the point that saying 'angry' increases the probability of certain responses to other?