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    Challenges→Matter and motion cannot produce thought and consciousness.

    The supporting argument commits the causal adequacy principle in a pre-Humean form that Hume himself undermined: we observe constant conjunction, not necessary perfection-transfer between causes and effects.

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    David Hume(as referenced in the statement)
    An 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that our desires and emotions, not reason alone, drive our actions and decisions.
    Necessary(ontological distinction in Mulla Sadra's metaphysics)
    The principle, God; pure existence without essence, quality or property that undergoes change or motion
    Perfection-transfer(as used in pre-Humean causation theory)
    An older philosophical idea that a cause must pass on or transfer all of its power and completeness to its effect in a perfect way.
    Pre-Humean(as used in history of philosophy)
    Referring to philosophical ideas that came before David Hume or that Hume would have disagreed with; basically the older way of thinking about a topic.
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    (Derived from the principle that nothing can come from nothing; used by Clarke to argue against matter as the original self-existent being)
    The principle that no effect can have any perfection that was not present in its cause; the cause must always be more excellent than the effect
    constant conjunction(Central concept in Hume's account of causation)
    A relation between two types of events such that one has always been followed by the other throughout observed experience.

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