Confounding Cause and Effect
- Ranvier
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Re: Confounding Cause and Effect
We established that "cause" is a noun in "cause and effect"
Additionally, we established that "due to" and "caused" are synonym verbs but there is a semantic difference, hence two different expressions. So no, they don't "mean" exactly the same thing.
However, if you wish, you can replace "due to" with "caused" in:
... vary due to variability...
if that makes more sense to you to give:
... vary caused variability...
-- Updated September 16th, 2017, 9:40 am to add the following --
I suppose that I'm getting tired...
... vary caused by variability...
-- Updated September 16th, 2017, 9:46 am to add the following --
I stand by my original question:
Why do you have to make everything so convoluted and difficult?
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