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    It is not the case that Hume demonstrated that ideas of causation, substance, and God can be fully constructed through the mind's own operations on sense impressions without requiring mind-independent formal realities as sources.

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    • 1.Even if causation isn't directly observed, constant conjunction itself requires explanation—mind-independent regularities best explain it.
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    • 2.Decomposing ideas into impressions doesn't prove those ideas lack external sources; composition and origin are distinct questions.
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    • 3.The mind's ability to combine impressions assumes prior causal powers and formal structures that cannot themselves be derived from impressions.
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    • 1.Hume empirically showed that we never directly observe causation itself, only constant conjunction of events in experience.
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    • 2.Complex ideas like substance and God decompose into simpler impressions, suggesting no external formal reality is necessary.
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    • 3.The mind's associative mechanisms (resemblance, contiguity, causation) fully explain how we construct abstract concepts.
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