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Humeanism (4,281 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

which in its strongest form states that causation is nothing but constant conjunction of certain types of events without any underlying forces responsible

Natural kind (4,369 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

water. For Dewey, induction creates warranted kinds by observing constant conjunction of relevant traits. No grounded generic propositions can be formed

British philosophy (3,546 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

causation is never given to us in experience. We only observe a constant conjunction of events, with no necessity whatsoever. In personal identity, Hume

A Treatise of Human Nature (17,443 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the two objects being observed together again and again. (This "constant conjunction" is promptly filed alongside contiguity and priority, in Hume's still-developing

Problem of induction (4,379 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and effects relies not on reasoning alone, but the observation of "constant conjunction" throughout one's sensory experience. From this discussion, Hume

Thomas Reid (4,250 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

all we can certainly affirm, is, that nature hath established a constant conjunction between them and the things called their effects; (..). (p. 59) It

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (3,374 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

knowledge of necessary connections as arising out of observation of constant conjunction of certain impressions across many instances. In this way, people

Mind–body dualism (11,428 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

illusion of efficient causation between mundane events arises out of a constant conjunction that God had instituted, such that every instance where the cause

Free will (24,905 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that 'A must bring about B' is tantamount merely to 'Due to their constant conjunction, we are psychologically certain that B will follow A,' then we are

Critique of Practical Reason (5,240 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Hume argues that we can never see one event cause another, only the constant conjunction of events. Kant suggests that if Hume's view were universally accepted

Roy Bhaskar (6,604 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

knowledge of invariant causal laws by observing causal regularities: "a constant conjunction of events perceived". Bhaskar develops what he calls an immanent