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    When one event follows another in virtue of a causal rela... — Carmelics
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    When one event follows another in virtue of a causal relation, the succeeding event must always follow in accordance with a strictly universal and necessary rule.

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    • 1.Causal relations are not merely contingent regularities but are governed by necessary rules.
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    • 2.The rule governing a causal relation is a particular law connecting a given cause to a given effect, not merely the general causal principle.
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    • 1.Probabilistic causation in quantum mechanics shows that a cause can obtain without its putative effect following with strict universality.
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    • 2.If indeterministic causal relations are coherent and physically instantiated, strict universal necessity is not a condition on causation as such.
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    • 3.Dropping strict necessity in favor of objective probability preserves causal explanation without requiring the Kantian a priori rule.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that causal necessity is not observable in the world but is a habit of mind projecting expectation onto constant conjunction.
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    • 2.If necessity is a psychological imposition rather than a feature of events themselves, no causal rule can be strictly necessary in the ontological sense Kant requires.
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    Similarly, the text of the Second Analogy is also committed to the necessity and strict universality of particular causal laws. If the general causal principle (that every event b must have a cause a) is true, then, according to Kant, there must also be particular causal laws (relating preceding events of type A to succeeding events of type B) which are themselves strictly universal and necessary.[9] Kant maintains that, when one event follows another in virtue of a causal relation, it must al
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