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    It is not the case that The concept of causality is contributed by the mind a priori, not derived from sensory perception

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    • 1.Repeated observation of constant conjunctions produces a habitual mental transition that constitutes our entire idea of causation (Hume).
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    • 2.If the habit of expectation fully accounts for causal reasoning, positing an additional a priori category is explanatorily redundant.
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    • 3.A concept whose sole cognitive work is performed by associative habit cannot be genuinely a priori in the relevant sense.
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    • 1.Neuroscientific evidence shows causal inference emerges developmentally through perceptual learning, not as a pre-formed cognitive structure (Gopnik).
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    • 2.If causal cognition admits of empirical developmental explanation, the transcendental argument for its a priori status loses its only compelling motivation.
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    • 1.Neither the relation of cause and effect nor the idea of necessary connection is given in sensory perceptions
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    • 2.The concepts of causality and necessity arise from the operations of the understanding
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    • 3.The concepts of causality and necessity arise entirely a priori as pure concepts or categories of the understanding
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