What does this mean: "It appears, that in single instances of the operation of bodies we never can, by our utmost scrutiny, discover anything but one event following another, without being able to comprehend any force of power by which the cause operates or any connection between it and its supposed effect."

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Elise Adams

13 November, 08:36

What does this mean: "It appears, that in single instances of the operation of bodies we never can, by our utmost scrutiny, discover anything but one event following another, without being able to comprehend any force of power by which the cause operates or any connection between it and its supposed effect."

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Rodolfo Barton · Answer 1

The statement means we can never get the connection between successive events happening unless we take them one after another.

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The link of the events cannot be gotten nonl matter how careful the facts are being considered unless the events meaning are consider independently.