The first assumption is that you are seeing what you think you are seeing.
To paraphrase Wikipedia:
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, who describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall.
The people watch shadows projected on the [uneven] wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent the fragment of reality that we can normally perceive through our senses.
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I would say the shadows on the wall represent not the fragment, but the illusion of reality that we perceive through our senses.
To add:
In general, a coincidence is not automatically a correlation, and a correlation does not prove a cause - either which way.
But that does not mean there is none; in fact, in the material world, every effect has its cause; complex effects often more than one.
It just means you have to be careful and diligent with your forensics.
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Plato's Cave
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The first assumption is that you are seeing what you think you are seeing.
To paraphrase Wikipedia:
The Allegory of the Cave, or Plato's Cave, is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato as a dialogue between Plato's brother Glaucon and his mentor Socrates, who describes a group of people who have lived chained to the wall of a cave all their lives, facing a blank wall.
The people watch shadows projected on the [uneven] wall from objects passing in front of a fire behind them and give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality, but are not accurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent the fragment of reality that we can normally perceive through our senses.
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I would say the shadows on the wall represent not the fragment, but the illusion of reality that we perceive through our senses.
To add:
In general, a coincidence is not automatically a correlation, and a correlation does not prove a cause - either which way.
But that does not mean there is none; in fact, in the material world, every effect has its cause; complex effects often more than one.
It just means you have to be careful and diligent with your forensics.
And always keep an eye on those contradictions…