Reichenbach's common cause principle shows that constant conjunctions between barometers and storms reflect shared causal ancestry, not direct causal laws between conjoined events.

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Common Cause Principle(Philosophy of causation; attributed to Reichenbach): The principle that any correlation between two variables that are not causally related to each other must be explained by a common cause.
Direct causal law(as what the barometer-storm connection is NOT): A straightforward rule where one thing directly causes another thing to happen (like pushing a domino causes it to fall).
Reichenbach, Hans(the statement refers to his principle about causation): A 20th-century philosopher and physicist who developed ideas about how we can prove that one thing actually caused another, especially when we only observe them happening together.
Shared causal ancestry(as the true explanation for why barometers and storms appear linked): When two things have the same root cause or originate from the same underlying source, even if they seem connected to each other.

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