...scientific conceptions about cause: 'a cause is said to be an object followed by another, where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second, and where, if the first object had not been, the second had not existed' (Hume, 1748:76-77). The ptinciple...

...to the first are followed by objects similar to thesecond. 21 Berkeley (Pelican, 1953), pp. 181-186. Or in other words where, if the first object had not been, the secend never had existed"** ib) But another part of what Hume is doing is offering a sketch for a psychological...

...übereinstimmende Definition vor: „therefore, we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, [...] where, if the first object had not been, the second never had existed" (S.76). Den Hinweis auf diese Textstelle verdanke ich dem Überblicksartikel von M.Heidelberger 1992,...

...out by his own arguments; for he defines a Cause "an object followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second." - Now, if he means an object that will in future, as in past times, be always followed by another;...

...i According to Hume, "we may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second." This definition pretty clearly suggests that causes and effects are entities that can be named or described...

...beginning of the When Hume defines a cause as "...an object followed by another, and where all the objects, similar to the first, are followed by objects similar to the second",51' the objects he is talking about are empirical and not physical. By "objects" he means to...

...David Hume. He wrote, "We may define a cause to be an object followed by another, and where all the objects, similar to the first, are followed by objects...object had not been, the second never had existed." So, according to the first definition, an event C causes an event E if (i) C and E occur, and (ii)...

...object followed by another, and where all the objects, similar to the first, are followed by object similar to the second. Or, in other words, where,...object had not been, the second never had existed. (Hume 1748/1959. sec. VII). This two -faceted definition is puzzling on several accounts. First, regularity...

...succinct. In its natural aspect a cause is said to be 'An object followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed = by objects similar to the second', with the additional gloss, 'where, if sj the first object had not been, the second had never existed':...

...first definition is "[W]e may define a cause to be an object, followed by another, and where all the objects similar to the first are followed by objects similar to the second" (76). Hume makes two important statements about this definition. First he says that "where, if the...