Locke, Hume and the Idea of Causal Power

Locke Studies 33 (2):93-112 (2003)
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This paper has a modest, but important, aim: to gain a better understanding of the relationship between John Locke's and David Hume's theories of causal power in the operations of external objects. The task is important because it focuses on an issue involving these two philosophers astonishingly not much discussed amongst commentators. (edited)

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