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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.

    If necessity in causal laws is a psychological habit rather than an objective feature of reality, then strictly universal necessary laws cannot be required to ground particular causal relations.

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    Key Terms

    Causal laws(the general principles governing cause and effect)
    Rules of nature that describe how one thing causes another to happen—the predictable patterns we see in the world.
    Ground (in philosophy)(in epistemology)
    To provide a foundation or justification for something; to explain why a belief or idea is actually true or valid.
    necessity (in causal laws)(as used in philosophy of causation)
    The quality of something having to happen—not just happening to happen, but being required to happen by the laws of nature.
    objective feature of reality(as used in metaphysics)
    Something that exists and is true about the world independent of what any person thinks or feels about it.
    particular causal relations

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    (as used in philosophy of causation)
    Individual instances where one specific thing causes another specific thing to happen (like 'this match caused this fire').
    psychological habit(psychology and epistemology)
    A learned pattern of behavior or thinking that your mind falls into through repetition, but which isn't based on deep truth.
    strictly universal necessary laws(as used in philosophy of science)
    Rules that must apply everywhere and always, with no exceptions—laws that couldn't be any other way.

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