Hume demonstrated in the Treatise that the causal maxim 'everything has a cause' is neither intuitively nor demonstrably certain, since we can conceive of an object beginning to exist without a cause without logical contradiction.
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When two statements cannot both be true at the same time because they directly oppose each other. For example, 'it is raining' and 'it is not raining' are contradictory.
Treatise
A treatise is a long, detailed written work that thoroughly explores and explains a single subject or topic. It's typically a formal, serious piece of writing that goes deeper than a simple article or essay, presenting arguments, evidence, and careful analysis to help readers understand the subject completely. Famous examples include philosophical works, scientific explanations, or political essays that scholars and educated people study to learn about important ideas.
causal maxim(Clarke's cosmological argument)
The principle that everything must have a cause or ground for its existence, and that no effect can have any perfection not also present in its cause