I really don’t think statements of the form “X is, in practice, correlated with Y” should apply to situations where X has literally never occurred. You might want to say “I expect that X would, in practice, be correlated with Y” instead.
All events have never occurred if you describe them with enough specificity; I’ve never eaten this exact sandwich on this exact day.
While nobody has eaten Yoda before, there have been instances where people have eaten beings that could talk intelligently.
I really don’t think statements of the form “X is, in practice, correlated with Y” should apply to situations where X has literally never occurred. You might want to say “I expect that X would, in practice, be correlated with Y” instead.
All events have never occurred if you describe them with enough specificity; I’ve never eaten this exact sandwich on this exact day.
While nobody has eaten Yoda before, there have been instances where people have eaten beings that could talk intelligently.