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Best Explanation?

David,

I think we are comfortable about denying the role of the victims' genes in lynchings or the Holocaust as causes because we have better explanations that account for the observed genetic correlations as being non-causal factors in the explanations.

Do you have a better explanation for "mental illnesses" that correlate highly with physical brain abnormalities, that accounts for these abnormalities in a non-causal role?

If you don't, on what basis should one reject what seems to be the best explanation available?

Gil

by Gil on Wed, 02/23/2005 - 20:40

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