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S/P/341. Should Hume be interpreted as Maintaining a Regularity Theory of Causation?

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2008
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The paper examines the views of David Hume on the links between cause and effect known as 'regulatory' theory and 'modified necessity' theory. Philosophical understanding of causation is discussed arguing the amount of experience sufficient to establish the cause and effect relationship between phenomena.

 

KEYWORDS: Causation, cause and affect, David Hume,

 
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