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Regular Associations and Singular Causes

  • Cartwright N
Springer Netherlands, (1988), 79-97
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2863-3_5
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Abstract

How close can we come to a Humean account of causation? Not very close at all. Hume began with cases of singular causation. He looked for something, besides spatio-temporal contiguity, to connect the cause with the effect. When he failed to find it, he moved to the...

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Cartwright, N. (1988). Regular Associations and Singular Causes. In Causation, Chance and Credence (pp. 79–97). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2863-3_5

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