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Ayer rejects Hume’s two definitions of the concept of “cause”.Comments:To definition 1: For two objects, C and E following C, theobject C is named the cause of E when always objects similar to Care...
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The context is that Hume is a skeptic about the entire notion of causation, and Ayer wants to challenge this. In fact, while he makes a show of being largely in agreement with Hume, he has very...
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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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