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Hume’s insights position causation as an atomistic and subjective experience, suggesting that our interpretations of connections between events are rooted in habitual correlations rather than objective truths. This nuanced perspective generates ongoing philosophical debates regarding the nature of causation and its place in the empirical world.
Hume controversially posited that our expectations for events to unfold in familiar ways are merely psychological habits. There is no intrinsic reason in nature for events to occur in predictable patterns, which redefines our understanding of causation as not a law of nature, but rather a realm of human cognitive construction.