2364 | Causation is only observation of similar events following each other, with nothing visible in between [Hobbes] |
6730 | We discover natural behaviour by observing settled laws of nature, not necessary connections [Berkeley] |
3662 | Hume says we can only know constant conjunctions, not that that's what causation IS [Hume, by Strawson,G] |
2193 | No causes can be known a priori, but only from experience of constant conjunctions [Hume] |
4771 | In both of Hume's definitions, causation is extrinsic to the sequence of events [Psillos on Hume] |
5194 | Hume's definition of cause as constantly joined thoughts can't cover undiscovered laws [Ayer on Hume] |
2221 | A cause is either similar events following one another, or an experience always suggesting a second experience [Hume] |
2234 | It is only when two species of thing are constantly conjoined that we can infer one from the other [Hume] |
16946 | Causation is just invariance, as long as it is described in general terms [Quine on Hume] |
15250 | If impressions, memories and ideas only differ in vivacity, nothing says it is memory, or repetition [Whitehead on Hume] |
8383 | Day and night are constantly conjoined, but they don't cause one another [Reid, by Crane] |
23677 | We all know that mere priority or constant conjunction do not have to imply causation [Reid] |
5545 | Appearances give rules of what usually happens, but cause involves necessity [Kant] |
8377 | Causation is just invariability of succession between every natural fact and a preceding fact [Mill] |
8380 | Striking a match causes its igniting, even if it sometimes doesn't work [Russell] |
8371 | Recurrence is only relevant to the meaning of law, not to the meaning of cause [Ducasse] |
8598 | If things turn red for an hour and then explode, we wouldn't say the redness was the cause [Shoemaker] |
8421 | Regularity analyses could make c an effect of e, or an epiphenomenon, or inefficacious, or pre-empted [Lewis] |
8391 | In counterfactual worlds there are laws with no instances, so laws aren't supervenient on actuality [Tooley] |
8384 | The regularity theory explains a causal event by other items than the two that are involved [Crane] |
8338 | A phenomenalist about objects has to be a regularity theorist about causation [Strawson,G] |
14537 | Coincidence is conjunction without causation; smoking causing cancer is the reverse [Mumford/Anjum] |
12400 | Cries the maid: 'You must marry me Hume!'... [Sommers,W] |
16527 | Causation - we all thought we knew it/ Till Hume came along and saw through it/…. [Sommers,W] |