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PHILOSOPHICAL METHOD & ARGUMENTATION
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Argument: (1) All truths are known either through reason alone (a priori) or through experience (a posteriori). (2) The claim that 'every event has a cause' cannot be known a priori, as its denial is not a logical contradiction. (3) It cannot be known a posteriori, as we only experience a succession of events, not a necessary connection. (4) Therefore, the claim that 'every event has a cause' is not a truth we can know.
An objector argues that causality is a fundamental principle of science and reason, and that this skeptical conclusion must be wrong. They propose that we should treat the causal principle not as a description of the world we discover, but as a presupposition we must make in order to investigate the world at all. This response is best understood as a revision of which part of the argument?
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