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    It is not the case that 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 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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    • 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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