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===Causation===

===Causation===

Writing about [[metaphysics]], Hume charges most [[philosopher]]s with [[logical]] [[incontinence]]. He attacks the metaphysical principle of [[causation]] (the view that causal laws are necessary relations between events), arguing that there could be no sense impressions that would justify such a belief. All that we may [[infer]] from our senses are that certain events are "constantly conjoined." But the constant conjunction of X and Y does not logically imply a necessary connection between X and Y. For instance, we have always seen the sun rise in the morning, but we cannot show that it ''must'' do so tomorrow. For all we know, it shall not.

Writing about [[metaphysics]], Hume charges most [[philosopher]]s with [[logical]] incontinence. He attacks the metaphysical principle of [[causation]] (the view that causal laws are necessary relations between events), arguing that there could be no sense impressions that would justify such a belief. All that we may [[infer]] from our senses are that certain events are "constantly conjoined." But the constant conjunction of X and Y does not logically imply a necessary connection between X and Y. For instance, we have always seen the sun rise in the morning, but we cannot show that it ''must'' do so tomorrow. For all we know, it shall not.

It is important to note that Hume is not a radical [[skeptic]]. He is not worried that the sun shall not rise tomorrow; rather, he is simply remarking on our inability to have absolute certainty about the world based solely on our [[empirical]] observations of it.

It is important to note that Hume is not a radical [[skeptic]]. He is not worried that the sun shall not rise tomorrow; rather, he is simply remarking on our inability to have absolute certainty about the world based solely on our [[empirical]] observations of it.