Shared context does not establish a causal or contractual connection between events
Evidence
That both the contract and Mordelt’s visit pertained to the trade show does not mean that the two were connected to each other. — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 859
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 859
- XREF: connects to: Treating shared class membership as complete identity causes invalid reasoning — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 848; Connecting events solely through a shared location commits an undistributed middle fallacy — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 854; Sequence alone never establishes causation as a matter of law — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1134 (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Chronological sequence alone never proves causation
#corroborates(0.90) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1130 - Sequence alone never establishes causation as a matter of law
#corroborates(0.85) — Ruggero J. Aldisert, Agatha D. Aldisert, Logic for Lawyers- A Guide to Clear…, 1134 - Co-presence does not require awareness of the other’s presence
#expands(0.75) - Understanding arises only from perceiving causal links among facts, not from the facts themselves
#qualifies(0.60) — Janet Burroway; Elizabeth Stuckey-French; Ned Stuckey-French, Writing Fiction, Tenth Edition, 471 - Instrumentalized communication destroys the possibility of shared truth
#expands(0.50) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 378 - Communication does not report reality but inverts the reported relation to it
#complicates(0.40) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 187