Evaluate the following argument in accordance with the criteria discussed in the text."I'm over seventy years old and got all of my natural teeth but one. The secret is to eat a dollop of raw veal bone marrow every day."-Attributed to Mrs. Keller [a "wise old woman of Ohio"] by Robert L. Tubbesing, Old Farmer's Almanac (1986)
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This item is probably best analyzed as cum hoc. (I ate veal marrow every day and have all my teeth save one; therefore, the former caused the latter). A case for common variable principle can be made for this one, but not a very good case; there are too many other possible variables.
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