PHILOS 1E03 Lecture 8: Hume On Causation Note
17 Jan 2020
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"it is purely by experience that we can infer the existence of one object from that of another we remember having had frequent instances of the existence. Thus we remember seeing the sort of object we call flame and feeling the sort of sensation that we call heat. We recall also their constant conjunction in all past instances- always flame-then-heat. Without more ado we call the one "cause" and the other effect and infer the existence. No impression we can observe- there is not quality called cause. When i see the object i want to call the cause, custom and habit make me transition to the other object, or what i want to call the effect. And this transition is giving me the idea of necessity. It"s a kind of made-to- think effect at play. Hume has to conclude that since we cannot distinctly perceive how any particular power can reside in any particular object, we deceive (finish)
