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    It is not the case that Causation must be something different from what we ordinarily take it to be

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    • 1.Causal power is directly perceived in our own volitional acts, giving us non-inferential access to genuine efficacy.
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    • 2.Reid argues we have an original perception of power when we act, making necessitation known through active experience, not sensory impression.
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    • 3.If one legitimate source of causal concepts exists outside Humean impressions, the empiricist derivation argument collapses entirely.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Hume's argument conflates the epistemic claim that we cannot observe necessitation with the metaphysical claim that necessitation does not exist.
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    • 2.The absence of sensory access to a relation does not entail that the relation is absent from the causal nexus itself.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Our ordinary notion of causation involves causes necessitating their effects
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    • 2.We lack sensory awareness of this necessitation between cause and effect
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    • 3.We see the first billiard ball hit the second and the second move, but we do not see the movement of the first necessitate the movement of the second
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