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Hume on Causation

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Reid's Critique of Hume
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The third part of Professor Dan Robinson's series examining Reid's critique of David Hume.
Causality arises from a habit of the mind formed by repeated experiences. “There is nothing in any objects to persuade us, that they are either always remote or always contiguous; and when from experience and observation we discover, that their relation in this particular is invariable, we, always conclude there is some secret cause, which separates or unites them…”

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Reid's Critique of Hume
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Dan Robinson
Keywords
hume
causation theory
contiguous
Thomas Reid
Department: Faculty of Philosophy
Date Added: 14/05/2014
Duration: 00:49:48

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