Help, Philosophy Question... Cause And Effect?

Question: Help, Philosophy Question!.!.!. Cause And Effect!?

Use An Illustrative Example To Explain How Hume Accounts For Our Expectation That The Same Cause Always Has The Same Effect (In All Relevantly Similar Circumstances)

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Well you can use the example of a very young child and a bouncing ball!. Say the child picks up and examines a small rubber ball for the very first time in its life!. There is nothing inherent in the features of the ball that in any way tell you that it will bounce back up, when dropped to the floor!. You can examine the ball all day long, and turn it over in your hands, at all angles!. Nothing about the ball tells you what it will do when dropped to the floor!. The child drops it, and sure enough watches it bounce back up!. The child does it again, and the same happens!. Then again and again and again, days, weeks, months!. The child now expects it to bounce back up when it is dropped to the floor, by means of what's called inductive reasoning!. Since it has happened in all those times in the past, as observed by the child, he now assumes it will do the same the next time he drops it!. However, there is nothing backing the claim, except for all the prior experience!.

now, an important conclusion that follows from this, is that Hume says no matter how many times the ball was observed to hit the floor and bounce back up (say it happened 10 trillion times) you still have no guarantee that it will do it the next time, or at some time way in the future!. Yet we come to accept that it will!. This is called the problem of induction!.

Put simply, in case you need a concise answer!. We simply witness cause and effect!. Object A followed by B!. We see A followed by B in certain situations with certain objects time and time again!. Then we just come to assume that the next time, given similar objects and situations, A will again be followed by B!.

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