Start with the observation

Water accompanies growth, medicine accompanies recovery and a match accompanies flame—but none works alone or guarantees the result.

Follow the reasoning

  1. Causes are real conditions within the order we observe.
  2. A condition explains sequence and access; it does not necessarily explain why the result has its form, measure and life.
  3. Treating a cause as absolute hides all the other conditions silently present in the same event.

A passage to hold beside it

“Where do they come from? Where are they going? Why do they come here, stay only briefly, and depart?” 1

Read plainly

A cause can be a doorway without being the builder of everything that passes through it.

Try observing this

Choose one familiar cause and list what it needs before it can produce the effect attributed to it.

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