Indeed it does, and that the earth goes around it. Until you have the information needed to rule either hypothesis out you better consider both. Maybe In some universes the bright thing in the sky really does orbit around you and not vice versa.
Several. You need more information than just one correlation/association to pinpoint the exact causal relationship.
But I expect you already know that, cause my understanding is that this is standard correlation/causation stuff—the sentence wasn’t supposed to point at a novel idea, just a novel phrasing of it. So your question seems rhetorical, but I don’t know what’s it trying to point at. Do you think this view of correlation/association/causation is false?
Correlation suggests Association suggests Causation.
Looking at the sky suggests the Sun goes round the Earth.
Indeed it does, and that the earth goes around it. Until you have the information needed to rule either hypothesis out you better consider both. Maybe In some universes the bright thing in the sky really does orbit around you and not vice versa.
Which causation?
Several. You need more information than just one correlation/association to pinpoint the exact causal relationship.
But I expect you already know that, cause my understanding is that this is standard correlation/causation stuff—the sentence wasn’t supposed to point at a novel idea, just a novel phrasing of it. So your question seems rhetorical, but I don’t know what’s it trying to point at. Do you think this view of correlation/association/causation is false?