Sentence examples for ideas of cause from inspiring English sources

Hume argues that since the ideas of cause and its effect are evidently distinct, we can clearly conceive or imagine an object without its cause.

He takes the separability of the two ideas to show that there is no necessary conceptual relation between the ideas of cause and effect insofar as conceiving the one without the other does not imply any contradiction or absurdity.

"And to any of my friends in the conservative wing of the Republican Party, who might have ideas of causing her problems because of her support for abortion rights, they should know that I will be there in her defense".

It's part of his aim to create something he can't fully control, relying more on the idea of cause and effect between how the physical elements interact, which also means the work will inevitably destroy itself.

Having asserted as fact that the investments of key underwriters "are clearly being protected by the positions taken by the Energy Foundation's largest grantees," he is obliged to describe as "conspiracy theory" the idea of cause and effect: "20 years from now... researchers may find evidence to substantiate such a theory".

As with the idea of cause and necessary connection, he wants to explain moral ideas as economically as possible in terms of their "simplest and fewest causes".

Both are definitions on Hume's account, but his "just definition" of our idea of cause is the conjunction of the two (EHU 7.2.29/76 77).

For example, God made the world such that it corresponds to the idea of Cause partially expressed by the axiom "every event has a cause".

For example, the conception of force is a modification of the Idea of Cause, applied to the particular case of motion (see 1858a, I, 184 5 and 236).

Hume's account  is causal in its own terms, that is, his two definitions of the meaning of 'cause' (Treatise, 1.3.14.31) are patterned on the chain of events that he thinks lead people to acquire the idea of cause.

Hume's investigation of the idea of cause had made clear that we cannot know causal necessity through experience; experience teaches us at most what in fact happens, not what must happen.