...which is the original impression from which the thought of necessary connection is derived. A cause is an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other. That Hume's analysis is a distinct advance upon all that had gone before there can be no doubt. But...

...conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect. Of this also we have experience. We may, therefore, suitably to this experience, form...another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought y to that other. But though both these definitions be drawn from circumstances foreign to the cause,...

...other words where, if the first object had not been, the second never had existed. . . . We may . . . form another definition of cause, and call it, an...appearance always conveys the thought to that other. 11 Hume's definition or definitions of cause constitute an instance of verbal legerdemain the extent...

...Thought to that other. But tho' both thefe Definitions be drawn from Circumftances, foreign to the Caufe, we cannot remedy this Inconvenience, or attain any more perfect Definition, which may point out that Circumftance in the Caufe, which gives it a Connexion with its Effect. We We have no Idea of this Connexion...

...conveys the mind, by a customary transition, to the idea of the effect. Of this also we have experience. We may, therefore, suitably to this experience, form...and whose appearance always conveys the thought to tliat other. But though both these definitions be drawn from circumstances foreign to the cause, we...

...opened up the 'New Scene of Thought' of which he speaks in the 1734 letter to (probably) George Cheyne. An object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to the other.29 The first 'philosophical definition' describes the contribution of the world, insofar...

...in the same regularity spirit: 'if the first object had not been, the second never had existed'. And 'an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other'. 2 Representative samples can be found in the volume edited by Hilary Kornblith, Naturalizing Epistemology...

...objects, similar to the first, are followed by objects similar to the second" and a few lines later as "an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other" (Hume 1955: 84-89). In other words, one sort of event causes another when it is always followed by...

...this conjunction establishes a connection in the mind, a second definition of cause is offered, as "an object followed by another, and whose appearance always conveys the thought to that other"; this shifts the focus from the conjunction of objects of experience to the connection in the mind....

...idea of the effect. Of this also we have experience; we may therefore form another definition of a cause, and call it an object followed by another,...appearance always conveys the thought to that other." CHAPTER THE SECOND. Having now made an abstract of Mr. Hume's Treatise and Essays on the subject of...