On Cause & Effect I

Hume was a philosopher who questioned humans everday use of rationality. His axiom was..."We learn cause and effect from everyday experience." He asked..."Where does it state that a particular cause and effect will always occur in the same fashion... every single time?"

Hume’s point was that the only thing we learn from experience is the succession of events in time rather than the causal connection between them.

There is really nothing wrong in his argument. The conclusion is that... We acquire knowledge from experience alone.

…To this day we still say that there is regularity in our experience.
Hume’s point of view was that... we should say that there have been regularities rather than... there is.... Consequently, we cannot know whether the regularity in question will continue.

This is roughly what Hume suggests: We cannot know anything about regularities but we are unfortunatedly inclined by our nature, to believe them.

…From an evolutionary perspective we are programmed to see causal connections and reasons... even though they do not exist. According to Hume, we continue with this because it helps us to live…
Hume could not have known the unformulated evolutionary theory, but his naturalist view was close to that.