...determination definition takes a cause to be "an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it in the imagination, that the idea of the one determines...impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other."1 And finally, in the Enquiry, but not in the Treatise, Hume defines a cause as "an object followed...

...object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one detennines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the Impression...the one to form a more lively idea of the other." (T 170)284 Im „Abstracf betont er, daß er, abgesehen von den drei bereits zu Beginn genannten Elementen...

...plac'd in like relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter." form the idea of the other, and the Impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other." (T 170) 284 Im „Abstracf betont er, daß er, abgesehen von den drei bereits zu Beginn genannten Elementen...

...to the Humean account of cause as: An object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it in the imagination, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea of the other." Obviously things do arise one after the next. What this phrase (4a) in the text must mean then, is...

...problematic Humean definition again: An object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it in the imagination, that the idea of the one determines...impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.30 On the regularity interpretation, Hume asserts that (a) there is nothing but a regulative...

...definition (Df2) runs: "A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form...of the one to form a more lively idea of the other" (ibid.). Surprisingly, Hume offers no further defence (or analysis) of these two definitions. He takes...

...the effect. Thus, a cause is An object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form...of the one to form a more lively idea of the other. (Hume [1739] 1978, 170) Hume granted that these definitions, which were "drawn from objects foreign...

...natural relation, 'a cause is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to form...impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other'.2 It is to be noted that 'though causation be a philosophical relation, as implying contiguity,...

...prec'dent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one determines the mind tn form the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.' Shou'd this definition also be rejected for the same reason. I know no other remedy, than that the...

...event precedent and contiguous to another is 'so united with it in the imagination, that the idea of one determines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the impression of one to form a more lively idea of the other' (Hume 1740/1992: 172). Thus, observed 'contiguity', 'priority',...