PHIL-200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Barometer, Counterfactual Conditional, Epiphenomenon
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Ie if two instances of a occur and one causes b but the other doesn"t, there is some underlying. Anscombe wants to reject the assumption we make that if a doesn"t cause b , then there is. Hume argued we cant find the necessitating facts within nature, yet nonetheless he still takes. When we say a caused b we are saying that b follows from a in necessity: but necessity is. We cant help but think that b should always happen after a when we state a causes b . we are. Anscombe: _______________________________causation is b somehow arising from a: but this differs from necessity. It is often declared or assumed that causality is some type of necessary connection; that causation is nontrivial . Hume"s, take causal relations to be ones in which something. Necessarily follows a prior event necessity to define causal relations within our mind as a construct, not nature.
