For Hume, "the effect is totally different from the cause, and consequently certainty in knowledge is impossible."

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Hume argued that cause and effect cannot be known through reason alone because the effect is not contained in the cause, but he did not claim that certainty in knowledge is impossible; rather, he suggested that our knowledge of cause and effect comes from experience and habit.

For Hume, "The Effect Is Totally Different from the Cause