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T 1.3.14.32

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'Twill only be proper, before we leave this subject, to draw |some corrollaries from it, by which we may remove several prejudices and popular errors, that have very much prevail'd in philosophy. First, We may learn from the foregoing doctrine, that all causes are of the same kind, and that in particular there is no foundation for that distinction, which we sometimes make betwixt efficient causes, and causes sine qua non; or betwixt efficient causes, and formal, and material, and exemplary, and final causes. For as our idea of efficiency is deriv'd from the constant conjunction of two objects, wherever this is observ'd, the cause is efficient; and where it is not, there can never be a cause of any kind. For the same reason we must reject the distinction betwixt cause and occasion, when suppos'd to signify any thing essentially different from each other. If constant conjunction be imply'd in what we call occasion, 'tis a real cause. If not, 'tis no relation at all, and cannot give rise to any argument or reasoning.

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Loeb 19921.3.14
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…ems content with the result that personal identity does not involve a real connection. At 1.3.14, "Of the idea of ne…
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…ts this result with equanimity. This puzzle can be generalized somewhat. Hume observesin 1.3.14 that "the terms of …
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…nnection in causation. Hume targets a number of the nearly synonymous notions not only in 1.3.14, but also at T 246-…
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…in the appendix and in 1.4.6, and in the discussion of necessary connexion in 1.3.14.4 At 1.3.14, Hume argues that t…
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…efinition in its place. But for my part I must own my incapacity for such an undertaking. (T 170) Hume introduces an…
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…es that others might raise it. In the Treatise, Hume treats the objection as a "delicacy" (T 170). This suggests that…
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…to a "real connexion" harken back to Hume's discussion of real connections at T 161-68 of 1.3.14, and to the objecti…
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…ed with reference to real connections, and real connections, as Hume conceives of them at 1.3.14, are intrinsic rela…
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…extrinsic relations. He was clear that causation is extrinsic (T 169-70; E 76-77); and in 1.3.14 he intends to contr…
Loeb 2009(T p. 170)
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…ion is strong. In the first place, Hume finds his two definitions of 'cause' 'defective' (T p. 170) or 'imperfect' (L. …
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…oke. Hume shrugs his shoulders; he challenges readers to 'substitute a juster definition' (T p. 170), and provides corre…
I.iii.14
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…juncture where projection, broadly construed, comes into play.) In the two definitions in I.iii.14 (T p. 169; cf. E p.…
(T p. 170)
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…inely tailored explanations. For example, the causal analysis inherits the one 'delicacy' (T p. 170) or 'inconvenience' …
Garrett 2010SBN 170
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…precedency and contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter." (T 1.3.14.31; SBN; SBN 170) 6 He certainly do…
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…h other. If constant conjunction be imply'd in what we call occasion, 'tis a real cause. (T 1.3.14.32; SBN 171) The seco…
Waxman 1992
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…gh much of the Treatise, even in the account ofthe relation of cause and effect itself in Treatise I.3.14 On the other hand, …
Ellis 2006
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…duction Hume hoped in T 1.4.6 to do for the idea of the self what he had already done in T 1.3.14 and T 1.4.2 for the…
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…similar form in the preceding paragraphs of the Appendix.) The second is his reasoning in T 1.3.14 from which he ultim…
Winkler 2010Treatise 1.3.14
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…at a short passage has "default referential force" is a bit like saying that the whole of Treatise 1.3.14, "Of the idea of ne…
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…nner of conceiving of a particular power in a particular body" comes, as it happens, from Treatise 1.3.14, which contains ano…
Strawson 20111.3.14
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…regularsuccession'or'constantconjunction 'and/or'feelingofdetermination'(forthedetails,see1.3.14oftheTreatise). Asfa…
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…t hemind,notbelongtoit.' Inapposition,agroupofquotationsfromHume'sdiscussionofcausationin 1.3.14: 'thismultiplicity…
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…ofobjects,alongwiththedeterminationofthemind,whichco nstitutesaphysicalnecessity'.(163-71/1.3.14.16-33) Asregardsthefirstg…
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…ausalpowerwhoseexistencemanifestsitselfinconstantconjunctionhassuffere dthesametreatmentin1.3.14).Hehasonhisownterms…
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…sanolessdeepandinflexibleprinciplegivenwhich [P8C]seriesofexperiencesofthekindspecifiedin1.3.14giverisetotheideaofo…
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…ctandunanswerable.Whenhemovedonfromhisempiricistaccountofthecontentof theideaofcausationin1.3.14oftheTreatise,andhis…
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…ichunitescausesandeffects, liesinthedeterminationofthemindtopassfromtheonetotheother'(166/1.3.14. 23;fordiscussionse…
Pitson 2012T 1.3.2-14
T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs)
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…ning of certain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time, T 1.2.3; causation, T 1.3.2-14; the mind, T 1.4.5.…
Strawson 2012THN 1.3.14
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… - the PrincipleGoverned Mind described in THN 1.1.4 / 10-13 - with tremendous success in THN 1.3.14 / 155-72 ('Of the i…
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… THN 1.4.6 / 251-63 - after having devoted detailed attention to our idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72, and our i…
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…to deprive himself of 'the uniting principle' (THN 1.1.4.1 / 10) that he had relied on in 1.3.14 and 1.4.2: 'the pri…
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…en he moved on from (3) his empiricist account of the content of the idea of causation in 1.3.14 / 155-72 of the Tre…
Pitson 2013T 1.3.2-14
T 1.3.2.1 to T 1.3.14.25 n32 (218 paragraphs)
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…ain key philosophical ideas (for example, space and time (T 1.2.3; SBN 33-39), causation (T 1.3.2-14; SBN 73-172), the m…
Rocknak 2019T 1.3.14
T 1.3.14 (42 paragraphs)
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…oduct of a conditioning process (specifically, the repetitive association of impressions [T 1.3.14; SBN 15572]). In th…