Causality is an empirical habit
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David Hume
Hume viewed causal relationships as custom based on experience. According to him, we observe empirically that one event causes another event, and as a result we develop the habit of finding a certain connection between cause and effect. However, Hume denied that this causal relationship is inevitable, arguing that the human mind merely "infers" a causal relationship between successive events.
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