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14576 | Smoking disposes towards cancer; smokers without cancer do not falsify this claim [Mumford/Anjum] |
Full Idea: Smoking disposes towards cancer, and has its way in many instances. The existence of some smokers without cancer, however, does nothing to falsify this dispositional claim. | |
From: S.Mumford/R.Lill Anjum (Getting Causes from Powers [2011], 7.5) | |
A reaction: Indeed, falsification by one instance will only work against absolute and universal claims, and nature contains hardly any of those. |