The very hope of experimental philosophy, its expectation of constructing the sciences into a true philosophy of nature, is based ...on induction, or, if you please, the a priori presumption, that physical causation is universal; that the constitution of nature is written in its actual manifestations, and needs only to be deciphered by experimental and inductive research; that it is not a latent invisible writing, to be brought out by the magic of mental anticipation or metaphysical mediation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A CAUSE is an object precedent and contiguous to another, and so united with it that the idea of the one determines the mind to fo...rm the idea of the other, and the impression of the one to form a more lively idea of the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »