The one good thing about the current fashion for talking about motte and bailey arguments is that everyone will finally have an accurate model of what the first castles were really like.
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Plus it will take some of the load off poor old correlation ≠ causation, which has borne most of the burden of aspirational analysis for the last decade at least.
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It’s not a perfect heuristic, but I assume I’m dealing with a pseudo intellectual when I hear correlation ≠ causation.
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Indeed it has become such a cliche that a reasonable investigation of causality given the correlation often seems to be missed (an ironic statement given my avatar, I realize).
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It was at the height of the war of independence, but, Pearson, the eugenicist, only makes a racial slur related to the Irish - "Notes on the History of Correlation, Pearson (1920)". He makes a correction that his attribution of correlation to Bravais should have been to Galton.
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