# something to think about

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-to-think-about/486819
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [February 21, 2009, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-to-think-about/486819 "2009-02-21T05:16:25Z")
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### Author: ![MichaelJohnBertrand](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dfb087/32.png) [@MichaelJohnBertrand](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MichaelJohnBertrand)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2009, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/something-to-think-about/486819/21 "2009-02-21T23:31:03Z")

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> [@eleanorigby](#):
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> Did you hear something?
> 
> Musta been the wind… 😉
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> AFAICT, Paris Hilton is famous for being famous. She adds nothing to world re the OP’s intent (she’s not a hero, at least I hope not!).  
> I think we have some circular reasoning going on here: if this famous person never became famous, we’d never know about him or her so we couldn’t analyze and decide what attributes made them succeed/famous, right?

This is not quite a circle, no.

From the point of view of my question, we’re perfectly free to imagine that said person never became famous… we can ignore issues of causality because we’re dealing with the realm of the purely hypothetical.

Don’t argue with the givens. 😛

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