The Qualitions Of David Hume: A Definition Of Caustion

Every day we come across causal notions. Causality is the relationship between something and another and when the first event is a cause, it doesn’t just simply happen before the effect, it produces it. For instance, releasing the pen caused the pen to fall. As an empiricist, David Hume claims that all knowledge is based on experience, either on perception or thought. He defines causality in two ways in which his commitment to empiricism had got him to these conclusions. The first definition of cause is the object’s relation to another object in contiguity; the second is the relation between the object and our minds. First he says that all perceptions are divided into two categories; they are either impressions or ideas. Impressions are derived

We directly assume that one thing causes another, but it is just as possible that one thing does not cause the other. Take for instance; you assume dropping he pen causes the pen to fall, because it happened before the effect. But, what if the same time someone sneezed and it happened directly before the pen falls. Hume claims that causation is a habit of association. In order to define causation, we must prove first its certainty/necessity. When we constantly observe one event following another, as constant conjunction, our deduction that we are forming a “cause and effect” scenario seems reasonable. Necessity is neither a direct relation in the objects, nor is it a quality found in the objects. Basically, it is an idea that is caused by our minds to assess an object that stands in a causal relation with another object. As stated before, every idea must have an impression from which it is derived. The idea of necessity comes from an impression within the mind due to constant conjunction. It is this notion that causes the mind to have an idea of efficacy of a necessary connection, between cause and