Hume writes, "When I see, for instance, a Billiard-ball moving in a straight line towards another; even suppose motion in the second ball should by accident be suggested to me, as the result of their contact or impulse; may I not conceive, that a hundred different events might as well follow from that cause? May not both these balls remain at absolute rest? May not the first ball return in a
straight line, or leap off from the second in any line or direction? All these suppositions are consistent and conceivable." Hume goes on to argue that ____.
A) a priori reasoning will never be able to show us any foundation for favoring one of these possibilities to another.
B) a priori reasoning will be able to show us a foundation for favoring one of these possibilities to another.
C) we must suppose that the connection between cause and effect consists of a perceived necessity.
D) only God knows what the second Billiard-ball will do after being struck by the first.
A
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