HOTSPUR POINTS OUT THAT CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION.

HOTSPUR POINTS OUT THAT CORRELATION DOES NOT IMPLY CAUSATION. In Henry IV Part I, at IIII, i, 12-21,

Owen Glendower says:

GLENDOWER

I cannot blame him: at my nativity
The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets; and at my birth
The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shaked like a coward.

And Hotspur replies:

HOTSPUR

Why, so it would have done at the same season, if
your mother’s cat had but kittened, though yourself
had never been born.

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