[If you imagine you are 'studying Econ' - you might -at very least- begin from an understanding of WHY that topic is permanently Guaranteed to remain: extremely IFFY - as regards any concept of that popularly abused idea of there being CAUSALITY! of any knowable sort.]


Despite ChrisR's heroic, meticulous and time-consumingly linked Clue-by-fours: it is pointless !=[*], with you.

You are the textbook-proof Example that, a course in Boolean Logic is as unrelated to possession of a working sense of Reason as :: [toughie] maybe..

possession of a Bible guarantees some knowledge of metaphysics?
possession of a car " " " physics?
possession of an egg " " " ovulation?
possession of a brain " " " a mind?
possession of a mouth " " " sentient sentences?


Your obsession with 'fact'oids "proving" some 'theory' you've recently had PowerPointed into cache-memory - in a class intended to force-feed MBA-sounding words into a group suffering from National attention span deficit:

merely clarifies your confusion about what fact, theory or process might even mean/connote/suggest... in human mentation. When explored to any depth, none of these concepts (nor many other common ones) long avoid circularity in their cross-pollination of "definitions".

You are in philosophical territory and you didn't even see the Toll Booth -- that one saying:

GO READ, absorb, ponder, experiment: before your Visa can be stamped.

Regurgitating predigested pap, slogans especially re Econ !! - punctuated with sentences ending in? - is a sure way of obtaining new flights of Flame constructs.. from others with quite less patience than the estimable (and evidently Informed) ChrisR.

You are in Philosophy and you Want: Literalness at a 8 yo level. As always.

GO READ a couple hundred non-VB-related BOOKS (or any other \ufffd-stuff) from Aristotel to Zoroaster; digest, explore, train-from-scratch a whole regimentGrand Army of new neuronal connections and,

and...


Your Non-style perpetual [sick, broke, needy, unconscious-but-got-a-keyboard] mewling Pisses Me Off, at certain times. Especially These Times, as we wait to see the Verdict:

How many of The Murican Peepul are Just Like You cha cha cha ???
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