A Treatise of Human Nature
Book
Formal Antecedent
Foundations and Logic
Citation
David Hume. (1739). A Treatise of Human Nature.
Why this reference is included
Hume’s A Treatise of Human Nature (1739) sits in the program’s reference corpus as a standing technical source. Cited across Book VII (Categorical Metaphysics), Part 2, Chapter Law, Regularity, and the Operator; Book VII (Categorical Metaphysics), Part 2, Chapter Causation, Space, and Time — the central framing is “The Problem of Laws The traditional debate has two poles: Humean Regularity On the Humean view , a law is nothing more than a cosmic regularity—a pattern in the Humean mosaic of…”.
Cited in
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Book VII — Categorical Metaphysics Part 2Chapter Law, Regularity, and the Operator
The Problem of Laws The traditional debate has two poles: Humean Regularity On the Humean view , a law is nothing more than a cosmic regularity—a pattern in the Humean mosaic of local matters of fact
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Book VII — Categorical Metaphysics Part 2Chapter Causation, Space, and Time
All of these approaches share a common architecture: causation is a relation between events (or facts, or states of affairs) that are given independently and that stand in need of a causal ``connector.'' The connector is the mystery—the ``secret connexion'' that Hume could not find
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Book VII — Categorical Metaphysics Part 2Chapter Causation, Space, and Time
Hume reduced causation to constant conjunction and temporal succession; the result could not distinguish genuine causes from coincidences