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On this latter account causal explanation was viewed as essentially a matter of showing the event to be explained as an instance of some law-like regularity (as we might explain the whistling of a kettle by reference to certain laws involving, among other things, the behaviour of gases under pressure).
But this does not lead Hume to hold that since we can't infallibly perceive that some succession is an instance of a regularity, we cannot form the concept of causality in terms of regularity.
Few of us are in any position to abandon a life of regularity for a life of spontaneity: regularity is what pays the bills.
I want to create that kind of regularity.
For instance, the regularity that nouns beginning with /kn/, as in Knopf (button.M) or Knall (bang.M), are masculine applies to only 15 out of 1466 monosyllabic words.
If the causal relation is a mere matter of regularity, why can't the regularities hold between facts?
Entropies provide a measure of regularity.
Theorem 4.1 (Description of regularity points).
6.3.2 we relax the hypothesis of regularity.
The notion of regularity is generalized to the notion of the so-called p-regularity.
The level of regularity for a targeted individual is assessed by using two types of regularity.
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