LessonsDemonstration Through Causes and Effects: Limmī and InnīQuiz

Within the historical causal scheme of the text, alleged corruption of humors is taken to produce fever, while fever is taken as evidence from which that earlier condition may be inferred.

Cause to effect: if the middle term is also the real cause, the argument is limmī.
Effect to cause: if it indicates the cause without producing it, the argument is innī.

These are not mere verbal reversals. From “A causes B” it does not automatically follow that every B was caused by A. A converse inference requires an independently warranted premise.

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Demonstration Through Causes and Effects: Limmī and Innī

Within the historical causal scheme of the text, alleged corruption of humors is taken to produce fever, while fever is taken as evidence from which that earlier condition may be inferred.

Cause to effect: if the middle term is also the real cause, the argument is limmī.
Effect to cause: if it indicates the cause without producing it, the argument is innī.

These are not mere verbal reversals. From “A causes B” it does not automatically follow that every B was caused by A. A converse inference requires an independently warranted premise.