How did Hume cast doubt on scientific certainty and the cause and effect theory?
a. He claimed that regularities observed in the past will happen in the present and future.
b. An objective reality exists which rational creatures can comprehend.
c. There is no law at work in nature that guarantees a specific cause will always produce a specific effect.
d. The mind has the ability to sense natural laws.
e. Science is able to prove a necessary connection that produces scientific laws of cause and effect.
c
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a. The ruling class was inspired by the enlightened ideas of a liberal Europe. b. Catholicism was weakened. c. Caudillos proved to be highly educated and effective leaders. d. Mexico's northern state of Texas was largely untamed frontier with few Mexican officials. e. Mexico proved capable of matching its two northern neighbors in meeting modern challenges.
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A) civil rights B) human rights C) environmental D) voting rights
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