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    Causal inferences are not determined by reason alone. — Carmelics
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    Supports→Custom or habit is the principle that leads humans to make causal inferences.

    Causal inferences are not determined by reason alone.

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    Since we’re determined—caused—to make causal inferences, then if they aren’t “determin’d by reason”, there must be “some principle of equal weight and authority” that leads us to make them. Hume maintains that this principle is custom or habit:

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