The argument conflates the impossibility of individual causal apportionment with the impossibility of population-level statistical decomposition, which are distinct epistemic targets.

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Conflates(in argumentation and logic): Treats two different things as if they're the same thing, or mixes them up in a way that causes confusion.
Epistemic: "Epistemic" relates to knowledge—how we know things, what counts as knowledge, and whether we can trust what we believe to be true. It comes from the Greek word for knowledge and is used to describe questions about the reliability and validity of our beliefs and understanding. For example, "epistemic humility" means acknowledging the limits of what you can actually know for certain.
causal apportionment(about assigning blame or credit to specific causes): The process of figuring out exactly how much each individual cause is responsible for producing an effect.
epistemic targets(what different approaches are actually trying to accomplish): The specific goals or questions that a method of investigation is trying to answer or achieve.

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