Can there be necessary connections between successive events?

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (1):1-25 (1968)
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Abstract

THE aim of this paper is to refute Hume's contention that there cannot be logically necessary connections between successive events. I intend to establish, in other words, not 'Logically necessary connections do exist between successive events', but instead the rather more modest proposition: 'It may be, it is possible, as far as we can ever know for certain, that logically necessary connections do exist between successive events.' Towards the end of the paper I shall say something about the implications of rejecting Hume's contention.

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Nicholas Maxwell
University College London

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