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    Challenges→There must be particular causal laws relating preceding events of type A to succeeding events of type B, which are themselves strictly universal and necessary.

    Hume demonstrated that constant conjunction between event types is all that observation ever establishes; necessity is projected by the mind, not discovered in nature.

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    • 1.Empirical observation only ever shows temporal sequences of events, never logical impossibility of alternatives occurring.
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    • 2.Our sense of necessity cannot come from sense data itself; it must originate in how the mind structures repeated experience.
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    • 3.Different observers with identical sensory input interpret causal necessity differently, suggesting it's mentally imposed, not discovered.
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    • 1.Physical laws describing constant conjunctions have predictive power that exceeds what subjective mental projection alone could explain.
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    • 2.If necessity were merely projected, we couldn't explain why certain conjunctions hold universally across all minds and cultures.
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    • 3.Some regularities (like gravity's mathematical precision) seem to constrain what minds can coherently project onto them.
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