Re: Not always joking, it seems

: mike weber <fair****tfan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Any factor which, if absent, prevents the event from happening is a
: cause - or, if you want to be pedantic, a pre-condition.

In my dialect, not all preconditions are counted as "causes".
People may say that they climb Everest because it's there, but
they don't really mean it literally.  But sure enough, Everest
must exist for anybody to climb it.


Wayne Throop   throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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