Causal diagrams don’t require understanding of the links- if the content of the card influences your cousin’s claim, then we would draw an arc from the card to the claim in our causal diagram, even if we don’t know how he’s influenced by the card.
(Privately, I would suspect the speaker’s belief is not rigorous, and would not put much weight by it, but why challenge them on a factual matter when we’re discussing causal networks?)
It’s not clear to me that you’ve sufficiently expanded your belief that your partner truly loves you, or what it means to commune with the universe, or what separates physical and non-physical processes. If we define as real things which are part of reality, and acknowledge that your belief in your partner’s true love exists in reality, why are we not content to find real causes for that belief?
(Of course, there are many status reasons to turn to spiritual causes. But the instrumental benefits are probably outweighed by the epistemic detriments- or, at least, I should not privately believe their claim, even if I consider it worthy of public endorsement.)
Causal diagrams don’t require understanding of the links- if the content of the card influences your cousin’s claim, then we would draw an arc from the card to the claim in our causal diagram, even if we don’t know how he’s influenced by the card.
(Privately, I would suspect the speaker’s belief is not rigorous, and would not put much weight by it, but why challenge them on a factual matter when we’re discussing causal networks?)
It’s not clear to me that you’ve sufficiently expanded your belief that your partner truly loves you, or what it means to commune with the universe, or what separates physical and non-physical processes. If we define as real things which are part of reality, and acknowledge that your belief in your partner’s true love exists in reality, why are we not content to find real causes for that belief?
(Of course, there are many status reasons to turn to spiritual causes. But the instrumental benefits are probably outweighed by the epistemic detriments- or, at least, I should not privately believe their claim, even if I consider it worthy of public endorsement.)