Can someone please explain what "causation" is, with respect to?

Question

David Humes idea of this?
To me, it seems completely senseless. I already checked wiki on it but still i dont get it.

For example, if i like throw a rock at a window, window breaks. Therefore the rock caused the window to break, right? How can anyone logically dispute that?

What was Hume thinking?? He obvioulsy hit on something that nobody else noticed, but I definitely am not seeing it.
Please help someone? Thanks!

Answer 1

Hume held that humans perceive causality when one event seems to always precede another. The preception in no way authenticated the relationship by his argument. I concur with this with this one caveat, if a relation is determined between two events then one does cause the other if it is a causal relationship.

Answer 2

According to quantum physics the rock never hit the window. The window was repulsed by the charge on the rock. Reasoning is so circular without two premises and ultimately there is only one and none. Things go in circles until you fix the one in a position, but the universe is in motion so any truth was, but isn't exactly the same to you from your new perspective, mood etc. Like food they go bad. Holding on to them kills you along with them so your dead right and all arguments are right and wrong so the universe is apparent contradictions and absolutes exept that's not correct and being relative that's the only way we can codify it unless we take a universal perspective and the philosophers say we can't and yet we can concieve of universal perspective so we can't virtualy have one. I don't know how to put it, but rigid ideas sort of don't work Reason is more to test and evaluate, but is only to understand reality and not determine it and is subject to what is, unless you use a very loose definition as we do.. Does that make any sense? Everything is in a way and isn't in another. The subconscious really can handle all that so Einstein said he was ordinary, he just used his intuition. You can throw logic out the window every 24th of a second and revaluate the situation, or question. The subconscious mind does and then picks logic up again and always "knows." except in the gaps. It's not formal logic, but comparing images and noticing the discrepencies, contradiction and making a new image. You can't have good without potential evil. We can make a quantum leap and see that we can only avoid exess evil as a race by not having such rigid notions as to causality or even non causality.

Answer 3

Haven't read Humes, don't intend to, 'cause learned long ago that people who spend a lot of time explaining obvious s h i t in pseudo intellectual ways have just found a really good way to make money.

Aren't you just talking about cause and effect? But I disagree with your analogy; the rock didn't break the window, you did. The rock was just the tool you used.

Answer 4

Philosophers usually aren't very logical... logic is restricting to human perception...

take for example the human color spectrum. the only colors we see, logically should be the only colors that exist... but they're not. Bees see colors that humans cannot.