Word: causalism
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...these facts are not related. Martin is so disturbing because he attempts to pull out of thin air a direct, causal relationship with his ridiculous rhetorical concept of a "Jewish monopoly...
...first fault is our relative ignorance and apathy concerning politics. Not only is American voter turnout abysmal, most of our education in political matters comes from sound-bites and tabloids. This may even be causal; it has been statistically shown that the more informed voters are, the more likely they are to participate in the process. Would the Republicans have swept as they did if American voters had studied the individual policies and records of their candidates, instead of acting on the general impression of Democratic failure and simply, effort-lessly throwing the Democrats out of office...
Leibovitz's 20-year-old meditations on the causal connection between occupation and the sickness of the Israeli polity were re-discovered and their author pronounced a prophet...
...importance Freud attached to dreams and bungled actions, such as so-called Freudian slips: "All three of these tenets -- the theory of neurosis, the theory of why we dream and the theory of slips -- have the same problem. All are undermined by Freud's ! failure to prove a causal relationship between the repression and the pathology. That's why the foundation of psychoanalysis is very wobbly...
...Senator Simon's performance was odd, then Ted Turner's was disgraceful. The industry's Judas, Turner pilloried broadcasters for showing violent programming. Aflame with righteous indignation, he claimed an obvious causal connection between the violence in television programming and that of America's streets...