. This brings an important question to our attention, how can Hume have acquired the idea of causation, and from what impression or impressions was it derived? Hume breaks down this question into three simpler ideas which are contiguity (spatial contact), emporal precedence and necessary connection. Necessary conection imposes serveral problems, since Hume cannot see how this idea could have come from anything directly encountered in our experience. In such circumstances, where the answer to a question about truth conditions does not yield any suggestion of an answer to the question about verification, it becomes problematic how we ever can come to know the truth of a causal statement, and thus how we ever could have acquired the concepts of cause and effect. The problem is to be solved, according to Hume, by providing an account of the origin of the idea of necessary connection that makes it possible to understand how people can successfully learn and use causal concepts. It clearly appears then, that of those three relations, which depend not upon the mere ideas, the only one, that can be traced beyond our senses, and informs us of existences and objects, which we do not see or feel, is causation.Hume's response to the conflict in question, is that we must preserve our scepticism, because we assent only when reason is lively, where the cost of scepticism is too high. Proceeding upon one singular quality of the imagination, by a parity of reason all of them must be embraced. The refined speculations do have a a strong effect, an intense view of the contradictions have made him think. He asks what he can believe, "I am confounded with all these questions, and begin to fancy myself in the most deplorable condition imaginable, inviron'd with the deepest darkness, and utterly depriv'd of the use of every member and faculty." (1.4.7,8) Even though Hume cannot bring himself to be a complete skeptic, he is still concerned but he will not ana...
