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| Jul 4, 2016 at 19:20 | comment | added | tofro | Exactly. Those are standard words any language needs to express causality. Even math (or rather: logic) has that, in the form of "A follows from B" and "A is a pre-condition for B". I don't speak Chinese, but I bet it has words to express this as well. And there's not much of a common root between Chinese and German, as far as I know ;) | |
| Jul 4, 2016 at 7:11 | history | answered | Kilian Foth | CC BY-SA 3.0 |