Lexicon of Arguments

 

Armstrong II 122
Causal Relation/Hume/tradition/Armstrong: in general, one assumes that the separateness is secured through that A and B are separated by any description, if it was not be self-contradictory, if A exists and B not.
II 125
Place himself has rejected that 40 years ago, namely the view that two logically different descriptions cannot refer to one and the same thing. Order: distinctiveness of descriptions/of objects. Solution: we have to assume three entities here: hardness and inelasticity ((s) because its relative to partners).
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Danto I 307
Causality/cause/effect/Hume/Danto: there are in addition to eventual causal links still logical links because the various ideas are not randomly together in the mind.
>Mind/Hume, >Ideas/Hume, >Association.
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Hume I 15
Causality/Hume: causality is affect! It is also an impression of self-awareness and an effect of similarity. The notion of causality is one with the notion of things.
>Concepts, >Similarity.
I 71
Causality/Hume: causality does not arise from probability (this may have to be determined at each stage of the habit) but from gradual observation. >Observation, >Probability.
I 74
Its true content cannot be constituted in experience because it itself constitutes the experience.
I 75
Ideas need to have a different context than mere individual events. Otherwise there is no inference from effect to cause.
Solution: habit as a principle. Habits requires experience.
>Experience, >Events, >Effect, >Cause/Hume.
I 146
Causality/Hume: causality is the only relation, from which one can conclude. Experience is thereby purely selective and constitutive.
Conclusion: the habit changes the level. >Description levels, >Levels.
I 152
Causality literally stands for the property.