TNH 1.3.03.05

So the opinion of the necessity of a cause for every new production isn’t based on ·a priori· knowledge or scientific reasoning, and must therefore arise from observation and experience. The natural next question is: how does it arise from experience? But I shall postpone that for a while, because I find it more convenient to sink this question in two others:

•Why do we conclude that such-and-such particular causes must necessarily have such-and-such particular effects?

•Why do we form an inference from cause to effect?

It may turn out eventually that a single answer will serve for both questions.

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