...defined as "an object precedent and contiguous to another and so united with it in the imagination, that idea of the one determines the mind to form the idea...the one to form a more lively idea of the other." There is no justification for this process of causal reasoning but only a description of how it operates...

...seems to be fairly enough deduced from his theory, and which he says is the best that he can give. "A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to...the one to form a more lively idea of the other." l55 Speaking of it in another place he says, "A conclusion which is somewhat extraordinary, but which...

...contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter'. The alternative, 'philosophical' definition is that 'A cause is an object precedent and contiguous to...of the one to form a more lively idea of the other' (T 170). The definitions given in the Enquiry are similar but more succinct. In its natural aspect...

...passion taken to excess, according to this cartoon by Gillray. and so united with it in the imagination that the idea of the one determines the mind to form...the one to form a more lively idea of the other'. There are four major elements in Hume's novel analysis of causation. They may be stated as follows....

...cause to be "an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it in the imagination, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form...impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other."1 And finally, in the Enquiry, but not in the Treatise, Hume defines a cause as "an object followed...

...object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it, that the idea of the one detennines the mind to form the idea of the other, and the Impression...the one to form a more lively idea of the other." (T 170)284 Im „Abstracf betont er, daß er, abgesehen von den drei bereits zu Beginn genannten Elementen...

...plac'd in like relations of precedency and contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter." form the idea of the other, and the Impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other." (T 170) 284 Im „Abstracf betont er, daß er, abgesehen von den drei bereits zu Beginn genannten Elementen...

...contiguity to those objects, that resemble the latter'" (ibid.). The second definition (Df2) runs: "A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to...of the one to form a more lively idea of the other" (ibid.). Surprisingly, Hume offers no further defence (or analysis) of these two definitions. He takes...

...experience that a cause always conveys the mind, by a habitual transition, to the idea of the effect. Thus, a cause is An object precedent and contiguous to another,...of the one to form a more lively idea of the other. (Hume [1739] 1978, 170) Hume granted that these definitions, which were "drawn from objects foreign...

...definition again: An object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it in the imagination, that the idea of the one determines the mind to form...impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.30 On the regularity interpretation, Hume asserts that (a) there is nothing but a regulative...