Cause and Effect

The Cause and Effect reading and exercises helped me to understand inductive arguments where there is only one significant difference or one significant commonality. It helped me to understand that cause and effect can be used in arguments with a mixture of difference or commonality reasoning. Reading about this confused me at first, but doing the exercises helped me to understand it better. The exercises were more clear to help me understand a most significant commonality and a most significant difference in an argument. This is how to argue causation. The reading talking about how lawyers argue a case by using similar arguments and causal arguments also helped me to understand it better. How one thing happened could be the cause of another thing, like if person A leaves the xbox on for a while, then person B comes to play the xbox and presses a button then it stops working. You could argue that it is person A's fault because they left the xbox on causing it to overheat, but you could also argue that Person B might have done something wrong to cause it to break or you could argue that Person B should have turned it off first.

Another example of cause and effect:
10 people in the class passed the test.
The most significant commonality could be that they all studied.
The most significant difference could be that no one else in the class besides those 10 people studied.