"He died, and drank the poison"

--- I have taught logic, and my students usually end up accepting, that if she had a child and got married she obviously got married and had a child. I have a bit more of a problem with Ryle's example, "He died, and drank the poison".

"But 'and' does not mean that"

Never mind what 'and' means. Stick to /\.

Socrates drank the hemlock /\ Socrates died.

Surely "<=>" with:

Socrates died /\ Socrates drank the hemlock.

This illustrates one aspect of Doctorow on 'the nature of causation' as per the essay he presented with M. Doctorow back in Berkeley in 1983 --.

Next lesson: What were the probabilities of Socrates NOT drinking the poison after his dying. Etc.