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    The concept of cause requires a synthetic rather than merely analytic connection between ground and consequent.

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    • 1.The concept of cause involves a real ground, not merely a logical relation between ground and consequent.
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    • 2.A real ground requires a synthetic connection, not one derivable by analysis alone.
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    • 1.Hume showed that causal necessity is never observed in events themselves, only in the mind's habitual expectation after repeated conjunction.
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    • 2.If causal necessity derives from psychological habit rather than objective connection, the analytic/synthetic distinction does not carve causal cognition at its joints.
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    • 3.A regularity theory of causation requires no synthetic a priori connection—constant conjunction suffices to ground causal claims empirically.
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    • 1.Leibniz held that all truths, including causal ones, are in principle reducible to identities, with apparent contingency reflecting only our epistemic finitude.
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    • 2.If causal relations are grounded in the complete concept of a substance, then 'A causes B' is analytically entailed by the full description of A—making the connection analytic, not synthetic.
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    All the elements from Kant’s earlier discussion of causality in the essays on Negative Magnitudes and Dreams of a Spirit-Seer seem to be present here. Kant begins with the purely logical relation between ground and consequent. Since, in the case of the concept of cause, we are dealing with what Kant had earlier called a real ground, Kant holds that we need a synthetic rather than merely analytic connection between the two. The most obvious thought, which Hume had defended in the Enquiry (and, ap
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