Isn’t that exactly how humans (and even animals) operate?

Human societies look for actual major correlations and establish classifications. Except with scientific-minded humans, we often also want, to know the why behind the correlations. David Hume got involved w that… https://brainly.com/question/50372476

Let me ask a provocative question. What, ultimately, is the difference between knowledge and bias?

To a certain degree yes.

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In this Mesopotamian text, diagnostic rules are structured as a nest of if then else rules. So I have been told, not that I have read it myself.