(April 23, 2014 at 12:42 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Hume is the sort of starting point on the metaphysics of causation. It's certainly progressed beyond what Hume said, but the recognition of the importance of what Hume said on the matter is as important as ever. I don't think one necessarily needs to have a case of their own to show problems with someone else's case.
Except in the case of Hume he wants to have his cake and eat it too.If causation becomes a matter of pure induction then a knowing subject is needed to recognize the pattern. And for Hume the knowing subject itself can be deconstructed into descrite parts, I.e. personal identity is also induced.
