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    David Hume established that causal necessity is a concept... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The existence of the universe can be made comprehensible if we suppose that it is brought about by God.

    David Hume established that causal necessity is a concept derived from intra-world regularities and cannot be coherently projected onto the totality of existence.

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    • 1.Hume showed causation is observed only as constant conjunction of events, not necessary connection between them.
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    • 2.Causal necessity requires reference to regularities; applying it to existence itself creates circular reasoning without external standard.
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    • 3.Cosmological arguments illegitimately project intra-world causal principles to the universe's origin, committing category error.
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    • 1.Hume's analysis of causation describes epistemic access to causation, not causation's metaphysical reality or necessity itself.
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    • 2.The principle that 'everything contingent requires a cause' operates at logical rather than empirical level, resisting Hume's empiricist reduction.
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    • 3.Some metaphysical necessities (like logical laws) aren't derived from regularities, so necessity can exist independently of patterns.
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