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Hume successfully argued that it's impossible to get causality from experience, because causes aren't in experience, only correlations or one event following an
by goatlover 8y ago
Hume successfully argued that it's impossible to get causality from experience, because causes aren't in experience, only correlations or one event following another. You need a mental concept of causality to draw those connections. Hume called it a habit. Kant argued that it had to be one of the mental categories all humans structure the world of experience with. Space and time are two others. You don't get those concepts from raw sensory data. We have to be born with that capability.