Tracing the cause of an argument backwards seemed interesting. It’s basically all about back tracking your steps in order to figure out what caused the result to occur. But it gets to a point where the possibilities of the cause are endless. The reason why is because “as we trace the cause back further it becomes too hard to fill in the normal conditions.”
The show Doctor Who does this all the time. You have to constantly watch and re-watch episodes in order to figure out what is really going on, or else you’ll be left confused by what the current episode is about. It’s obnoxious and it gets really confusing because what the writers of the show do is that they’d play a current episode from the current season, and then it will somehow relate to another episode that was done 3-4 seasons ago. However, it is really fun to do. It shows how much you pay attention to the series and how creative you are. You’re constantly asking yourself, “What if what this character did had something to do with what happened in that one episode?” Overall, it definitely does keep me thinking of all the possibilities. Sometimes I do go overboard on theories and possibilities, and now I know that it’ll become too difficult to be a normal cause and effect argument.
Someone tell this to the writers of Doctor Who! They’re basically making their viewers think harder than they normally should. Oh well. I’d watch the show either way. X]
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ReplyDeleteI had just commented on k_tab's post on tracing the cause backwards because I found this concept very interesting! Both of your posts provided a simple and clear explanation of tracing the cause backwards, and how it can get confusing to figure out the cause when you make an attempt to trace back too far. I liked your example because watching television shows does make you think about all the possibilities and how it would have made a different effect. This goes along with the concept of the butterfly effect theory, "where a small change at one place in a nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state." I tend to always think about possibilities and “what ifs” if I went back in time and changed something I did, but then the possibilities are endless!
Hi there! I found the concept of tracing a cause pretty interesting too. I didn’t write about this because I was kind of confused at first and I knew I was not going to explain it well enough for others to understand. I like how you clearly explain what it is and gave a good example of it as well. I never watched Doctor Who, but it does sound like an intense show because the audience has to think a lot. It would frustrate me because I won’t remember what happened beforehand. But it is good because it does get the viewers thinking about the endless possibilities of what happened.
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