Can there be Necessary Connections between Successive Events?
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Can There Be Necessary Connections between Successive Events?
THE aim of this paper is to refute Hume's contention that there cannot be logically necessary connections between successive events. I intend to establish, in other words, not 'Logically necessary connections do exist between successive events', but instead the rather more modest proposition: 'It may be, it is possible, as far as we can ever know for certain, that logically necessary connection...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0007-0882,1464-3537
DOI: 10.1093/bjps/19.1.1