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    Causality consists in nothing more than the regular seque... — Carmelics
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    Supports→We can have no certain knowledge of causal relations.

    Causality consists in nothing more than the regular sequence of phenomena.

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    The supposedly Humean position has three basic assertions: that there is nothing more to causality than the regular sequence of phenomena, that such a regular sequence cannot give a necessary connection, and that, consequently, we can have no certain knowledge of causal relations.

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