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Hume claimed the following: That the premise 1) Events of kinds A and B have been constantly conjoined in our present and past experience Does not warrant the conclusion 2) Events of kinds A and B are related as cause and effect 3) Since genuine causal relations involve the future and past as well as the present , we can infer the conclusion, (2), only if we can establish the explicitly general statement that 4) Events of kinds A and B are conjoined in the future as well as in the past and present adapted from Bruce Aune's Rationalism, Empiricism, and Pragmatism: An
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