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Hume and Ducasse on causal inferences from a single experiment
✍ Scribed by Fred Wilson
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 1979
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 246 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0031-8116
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✦ Synopsis
According to Hume, wherever one asserts a causal connection, there one asserts a generality. Thus, his first definition of 'cause' is this: "an object precedent and contiguous to another, and where all the objects resembling the former are plac'd in a like relation of priority and contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter"} C.J. Ducasse has argued that in fact this is false, that one can assert causal connections without asserting a generality, and has concluded that therefore Hume's account is inadequate. 2 Ducasse