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Letter: Effect and cause

Joe Boswell
Tuesday 08 February 2005 01:02 GMT
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Sir: Professor Rodney Coates (letter, 5 February) explains that the legal principle of causality states that an event must be preceded by its cause. It seems to me that the annual posting of Christmas cards is caused by Christmas, yet the posting precedes Christmas. Does the principle of causality show that posting cards is the cause of Christmas?

JOE BOSWELL

Aberdeen

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