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Ayer's criticism on Hume's definition of causation

He thus laid the way open for the view, which we adopt, that every assertion of a particular causal connexion involves the assertion of a causal law, and that every general proposition of the form ‘C...

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Answer by Chris Sunami for Ayer's criticism on Hume's definition of causation

Although it isn't completely clear in Ayer's quote of it, an intrinsic part of Hume's definition is that we observe C and then we observe E, not just once, but repeatedly. We thus define causation as a...

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