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    Causation is a natural relation, not a philosophical relation

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    • 1.Philosophical relations are immediately evident on reflection or comparison of particular ideas
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    • 2.The necessary connection between cause and effect is not immediately apparent to reason upon reflection on a single impression or comparison
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    • 3.The necessary connection between cause and effect becomes evident only through repeated experience of qualitatively similar pairs of impressions
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    • 1.Kant argues that causation is a pure concept of the understanding (category) that the mind imposes on experience a priori, not derived from it.
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    • 2.If causation is constituted by cognitive structure rather than discovered through repeated impressions, it cannot be reduced to a natural relation among perceptions.
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    • 3.Hume's own regularity account presupposes the very uniformity of nature it claims to explain, revealing that 'natural relation' already embeds a rationalist commitment.
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    • 1.Anscombe and neo-Aristotelian powers theorists hold that singular causal transactions are directly perceivable in individual cases of force, pressure, and agency.
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    • 2.If necessary connection is observable in a single case of direct physical causation, then P3 of the supporting argument—that repeated experience is required—is false.
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    • 3.A relation grounded in perceivable causal powers in individual instances satisfies Hume's own criterion for philosophical relations, undermining the natural/philosophical distinction.
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    Hume’s potentially idealist approach to causation is clearly on view in his 1748 Enquiry concerning Human Knowledge, which was quickly translated into German and would eventually provide Kant with the stimulus for his own aprioristic rather than empiricist argument for idealism with regard not only to causation but to all of what he called the categories of pure reason, including especially substance and interaction as well as causation. But since Kant was not familiar with the contents of Hume’
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