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| 19068 | Causation interests us because we want to explain change |
| Full Idea: Like Aristotle, the reason we are really interested in causation is because we want to be able to explain change. | |||
| From: Stephen Mumford (Contemporary Efficient Causation: Aristotelian themes [2014], 8) | |||
| A reaction: This pinpoints a very important and simple idea. It raises the question (among others) of whether we have just invented this thing called 'causation', because no explanation of change was visible. Hume certainly couldn't see any explanation. |