Week 9 Post 3: Chapter 15- Tracing the Cause Backwards

After I read Chapter 15, I found many topics in there interesting and fun to talk about. If I were to choose one thing to focus on, it would be about tracing the cause backwards. I thought the example in the Epstein text very funny brought up many situations that happened in the real world. In the text, it has an incident were Spot caused Dick to wake up. But did he really? An example that happens in the real world would be car accidents. One thing leads to another to cause something to happen. It usually has a lot that leads up to the accident, such as it was raining at night and Sam didn’t see the car in front of him stop abruptly. But the car in front may say that it was because there was a woman crossing the street when she wasn’t suppose to. The woman may say it was because she was late for dinner. This can lead to a very long and difficult story. But with tracing the cause backwards, we can see step by step to see what caused the problem.