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>From MILDRED FERENTINO:

"He would indeed immediately observe a continual succession of objects, and one event following another; but he would not be able to discover any thing farther. He would not be able to reach the idea of cause and effect, because they never appear to the senses."

>rm says: This is indeed a relevant quote from Hume. He provides examples to support this statement, a good idea.

>From KAI YU and WAI YAN:

yes he would see one event leading to another such as a person dropping a book and the book fall.

>rm says: But the question is whether he would know that the book would fall before it dropped.

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