Humans succeed so well at using causes to achieve desired effects that David Hume’s assertion in 1739 still seems preposterous. He held that we cannot know the connection between cause and effect. We overlook the way we gain what knowledge...
In 1743 David Hume concluded that we cannot know the connection between cause and effect, only recognise the fact after the event. Science observes Hume’s law, using experiment to establish the connection. Psychiatry and the law commonly ignore it. They go wrong by reasoning backwards from the event, seing through the retroscope what prejudice dictates.