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    Hume demonstrated that causal ordering of impressions ari... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Without synthesis and judgment as its vehicle, an ordering of representations cannot explain how we distinguish between objectively valid phenomena (objects) and the subjective states those phenomena induce.

    Hume demonstrated that causal ordering of impressions arises from habitual association, not from judgment, yet still tracks mind-independent regularities.

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    • 1.Habitual association explains causal judgment's psychological origin without requiring mysterious a priori rational intuition.
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    • 2.Repeated constant conjunctions between events provide empirical basis for causal beliefs that reliably track actual regularities.
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    • 3.Non-rational habit formation can still generate beliefs aligned with mind-independent facts through natural selection pressures.
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    • 1.Habitual association alone cannot distinguish genuine causal regularities from mere coincidental correlations in limited experience.
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    • 2.If causation depends only on subjective habit, not rational judgment, we cannot explain why different observers converge on same causal claims.
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    • 3.Tracking mind-independent regularities requires some mechanism connecting habits to external world; bare association provides none.
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