Cyan comments on Causal Universes - LessWrong

60 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2012 04:08AM

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Comment author: Cyan 28 November 2012 09:00:34PM *  0 points [-]

That implies the existence of some X and Y in the sentence "Harry suspected Quirrel of X because Y", e.g., "Harry suspected Quirrel of secretly being some variety of uplifted rodent because Harry had suffered organic brain damage that impaired his ability to think rationally." As long as Harry is (being modeled as) subject to causal influences, such a sentence can't escape implying causes.