Populism has no necessary connection with any set of beliefs, and flexibility can be the populist's greatest asset.
In O'Brien the Court considered a federal statute which on its face prohibited certain conduct having no necessary connection with freedom of speech.
Indeed, it could be claimed that independence per se has no fixed meaning or necessary connection with self-government unless we know what kinds of independence is required for self-rule (cf., however Raz 1986, 373-78).
In fairness to Malebranche, we might point out that, in identifying necessary connections with genuine causality, Malebranche is presenting an attractive reductive analysis of causation, one that we, benefitting from the exposure to David Hume's work, are already familiar with.
For, where Descartes has substances and a rationalist account of causation with objective necessary connections, with no such connections, and therefore no causation, between distinct sorts of substances (such as mind and body), Mill has no substances they are foreign to his empiricism and his view of causation is the regularity view of the empiricists.
For again, genuine knowledge is knowledge of necessary connections, with the conceptual relations in geometry being the model, and it does not seem possible to discover such connections between any sensation and the sizes, shapes, and textures that are supposed to cause them.
We end our discussion of al-Ghazālī on necessary connections with the following observation: if al-Ghazālī does consider genuine secondary causation to be consistent with the divine causal activity, he would have to concede that there are distinct types of causation.
Dicey argued that such a system would require "no necessary connection whatever with national or political unity".
As stated in the Critique of Practical Reason, "no necessary connection of happiness with virtue in the world, adequate to the highest good, can be expected from the most meticulous observance of the moral laws".
Despite the necessary connection the mind has with the body, argued Spinoza, sensation and imagination are inherently limited.
Hume's rejection of heirloom theories of causality and the necessary connection that goes along with them undermines Clarke's position on the causal relation of mind and body far more than Harris seems to allow.
