Posted: Jun 04, 2014 12:41 pm
GrahamH wrote:SpeedOfSound wrote:GrahamH wrote:You hardly needed to emphasise 'apparently', redwine. The difference between the two words is the assumption that there is a meaningful but unseen connection, or not. If you call two co-incident events syncronicity you are implying a meaningful connection between them. If you call it coincidence you are not. Since there is no evidence of causal connection you can't actually determine which is correct.
Ok. I'm really sad right now but we can get past that.
What kind of 'causal' connection could there possibly be in that story about my dad dying? That incident and all of the events around it is my best example of what I call life's poetry. How about UE's cards?
Why are you asking? How is that relevant?
If we can trace a causal connection, such as two people having watched the same movie the day before, or whatever, then we don't call the result synchronicity or coincidence.
If you call it synchronicity most people will assume you infer some teleology to the similarities. If you call it coincidence most people will assume you infer no teleology.
You may not mean to convey that. I suspect you do not, but don't be surprised if that's how some take it if you call coincidence synchronicity.
Synchronicity is related to "everything happens for a reason" and "There is no such thing as coincidence". I.e. all coincidences are synchronicities.
So those are the only two possibilities you see? Unrelated totally random coincidence(whatever THAT is!) or Magic Woo Fingers?
Synchronicity is related to "everything happens for a reason" and "There is no such thing as coincidence". I.e. all coincidences are synchronicities.
Who says? Gots evidence on that one?