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I'm sure there was a philosopher who said that his deepest wish was to know just one cause. Been trying to find out who said it for ages with no luck, so maybe

• goatlover 6y ago
  David Hume perhaps? He reasoned that causality was not empirical and therefore was a habit of thinking humans acquired from constant conjunction of events. Kant was troubled by that so he elevated causality to a category of thought, like space and time, which the mind used to structure sensations.
  • saas_sam 6y ago
    +1 to Hume. He described causality as being a glorified expectation which is subject to change at any time.