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22. "The conclusions which [reason] draws from considering one circle are the same which it would form upon surveying all the circles in the universe. But no man, having seen only one body move after being impelled by another, could infer that every body will move after a like impulse." (28) How does Hume explain this difference? What does it show?

 

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