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" ... existed. The appearance of a cause always conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect. Of this also we have experience. We may, therefore, suitably to this experience, form another definition of cause and call it an object... "
The Philosophical Works of David Hume ...: An inquiry concerning the human ... - Page 90
by David Hume - 1826
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Twelve Great Philosophers: An Historical Introduction to Human Nature

Wayne P. Pomerleau - 1997 - 566 pages
...establishes a connection in the mind, a second definition of cause is offered, as "an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other"; this shifts the focus from the conjunction of objects of experience to the connection in the mind....
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Early Responses to Hume's Metaphysical and Epistemological Writings: Volumes ...

James Fieser - 2005 - 408 pages
...have experience; we may therefore form another definition of a cause, and call it an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other." CHAPTER THE SECOND. Having now made an abstract of Mr. Hume's Treatise and Essays on the subject of...
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The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers

Ted Honderich - 2001 - 326 pages
...succession. On the view of necessity as connection in the mind, a cause will be 'an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other' — a rather different account, and less influential upon Hume's followers. Does Hume deny the existence...
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Hume: A Very Short Introduction

Alfred Ayer - 2000 - 152 pages
...existed': when the 3 contribution of the mind is brought in, a cause becomes 'an object •* followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other' (E 76-7). It has often been pointed out, and hardly needs repeating, that these definitions are far...
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The Promise of Trinitarian Theology: Theologians in Dialogue with T.F. Torrance

Elmer M. Colyer - 2001 - 372 pages
...in light of a strict analysis of sensory perception.35 So Hume defines cause as "an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other." While this seems contrary to ordinary human experience, Hume's critique created a major impasse for...
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Eine skeptische Überwindung des Zweifels?: Humes Kritik an Rationalismus und ...

Ruth Spiertz - 2001 - 188 pages
...had not been, the second never had existed." (E 76) 2. Eine Ursache ist „[...] an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other." (E 77) 340 Die notwendige Verknüpfung zwischen Ursache und Wirkung ist in diesen Definitionen nicht...
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Eine skeptische Überwindung des Zweifels?: Humes Kritik an Rationalismus und ...

Ruth Spiertz - 2001 - 188 pages
...had not been, the second never had existed." (E 76) 2. Eine Ursache ist „[...] an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other." (E 77)340 Die notwendige Verknüpfung zwischen Ursache und Wirkung ist in diesen Definitionen nicht...
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Ten Great Works of Philosophy

Various - 2002 - 596 pages
...therefore, suitably to this experience, form another definition of cause and call it an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the...out that circumstance in the cause which gives it a connection with its effect. We have no idea of this connection, nor even any distinct notion what it...
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Causation and Explanation

Stathis Psillos - 2002 - 342 pages
...temporal succession has remained. As for the second definition, it goes as follows: "aw object, followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other" (ibid.). Note that in the wording of the second definition, the reference to "determination" has been...
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From Cause to Causation: A Peircean Perspective

M. Hulswit - 2002 - 278 pages
...to the second." On the view of necessity as a connection in the mind, a cause is "an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other" (Hume [1748] 1975, 76-77). 20 Eventually, despite his alleged empiricism. Mill appears to be some kind...
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