Concept

Constant conjunction

Overview

phrase used in philosophy as a variant or near synonym for causality and induction

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Constant conjunction

• Wesley C. Salmon
• David Hume
• Roy Bhaskar

Related ideas

• Empiricism
• Philosophy
• Immanuel Kant
• An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
• Neuroscience
• A Treatise of Human Nature
• Inference
• Philosophy of science
• Causality
• Ivan Pavlov

Place in the tradition

Part of Deductive-nomological model.

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