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    Hume showed that causal necessity is not found in events ... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Everything that happens has a sufficient reason in an antecedent state of the world.

    Hume showed that causal necessity is not found in events themselves but projected by the mind from observed regularities.

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    • 1.We never directly observe necessity in nature; we only observe constant conjunction of events in sequence.
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    • 2.The mind's expectation that regularities will continue is psychological, not derived from external objects.
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    • 3.Causal claims go beyond observable data and require mental inference or habit to connect separate events.
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    • 1.Some regularities (like gravity) maintain necessity independent of human minds observing or projecting it.
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    • 2.If causality were mere projection, different minds would consistently project contradictory causal relations.
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    • 3.Physical constraints on objects (e.g., solidity preventing interpenetration) suggest necessity in things themselves.
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