 Śrīharṣa argues that this proposal falls prey to what we may call the problem of spurious correlations. Take a scenario where an entity c and an effect e share a common cause, e.g., the first unclear symptoms of a disease and the later more pronounced symptoms of it. Here, there is a common cause for both sets of symptoms: the disease itself (or perhaps, the conditions that produce the disease). The first set of symptoms accompanies the second set unconditionally. There is no third condition c* such that the first set of symptoms are produced only if c* is present, but c* is sometimes absent from cases where the second set of symptoms is present. This makes the connection between the two sets of symptoms unconditional, but that doesn’t make the first set of symptoms causally relevant to the second.