What's the Latin phrase for that type of argument? Ipso Reducto... something something? I was at a corporate training resort campus place recently, known both for its native squirrel population (I kid you not), and the feral cats.
Someone remarked that with a recent change of ownership of the facility, the squirrel population went up, BECAUSE they had removed the cats. I doubted that, and suggested that in fact there were more squirrels BECAUSE the squirrels had eaten the cats...
Oh, my itchiing brain! What type of argument is that, flipping the causation around backwards?
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