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Originally Posted by General_Lee
I know, but see, those concepts, "influence" and "cause" are so closely related: I can influence your thinking about jews. I can cause you to think differently about jews through the influence I have on you.
If I cause you to to think differently about jews, did I affect your thinking or did I have an effect on your thinking. Or both?
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I would say you affected my thinking about jews if you brought up facts I was not aware of, but no fundamental change in my belief about them. But if you turned my view of them from fundamentally positive to negative, then you effected a change in my thinking. In math terms, if I am proceeding left to right, and you turn me more than 90 degrees, you have effected a change. But if you've influenced me less than 90 degrees, you have affected my thinking - influenced but not changed.