[r-t] Decisions

[Don Morrison]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Robin Woolley <robin at robinw.org.uk> wrote:
> It [the particles peal] is, if you like, the root cause of all the
> traffic on this list for c4 months.

Proximate cause, perhaps. Root cause, absolutely not.



-- 
Don Morrison <dfm at ringing.org>
"The law of causality is neither true nor false. It is rather a
heuristic principle, a signpost...to help us find our bearings in a
bewildering maze of occurrences."
 -- Max Planck, "The Concept of Causality in Physics", tr Frank Gaynor