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[from 'Enquiry Conc Human Understanding' by David Hume, in 26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / a. Constant conjunction ]

Full Idea

Hume's regularity theory of causation is only a theory about causation so far as we can know about it or contentfully conceive of it in the objects, not about causation as it is in the objects.

Gist of Idea

Hume says we can only know constant conjunctions, not that that's what causation IS

Source

report of David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], IV.I) by Galen Strawson - The Secret Connexion App C

Book Reference

Strawson,Galen: 'The Secret Connexion' [OUP 1992], p.276