Hume's discussion on cause and effect is an argument I personally find difficult to fully wrap my head around and accept. He challenges justifying our belief in causality through reason. We can observe and experience a consistent sequence of events, we can never know through reason alone why the first event must necessarily lead to the second. Essentially, our belief in cause and effect is not based on reason or logic but rather on custom and habit. Thus, our concept of cause and effect is rooted in our subjective perceptions and not in any inherent connection between events. While Hume's skepticism about causation's metaphysical nature is valid, the concept of causation is rather intuitive and cannot be simplified to a result of human perception or habit. The concept of causation is intuitively understandable and universally recognized across different cultures and historical periods that lag behind scientist progress in solidifying absolute cause and effect thus this universality suggests that causation has a basis in reality beyond subjective human experience.
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