人类理解研究

As to where people's notion of cause and effect comes from, the author explains that it is due to "habitual association. That is, after seeing similar instances repeated many times, people's minds are influenced by habit, so that after an event occurs, "they expect another event to follow it, and call the former event the cause and the latter event the effect. However, the author cautions that although there is no causality and inevitability, "contingency is certain", and people can believe in the belief that something happened in the past based on experience, and judge the "contingency" based on the number of occurrences. The size of "contingency" is judged according to the number of occurrences, and people act according to this judgment, and that is all. Therefore, the author clearly states: "Habit is the great guide to life". The existence of God From his empirical point of departure the author denies not only the material world and its causality and necessity, but also the existence of a super-empirical spiritual entity, God.