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Nicholas of Autrecourt · c. 1299–1369
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“Four hundred years before Hume, a Paris master showed that cause-and-effect cannot be proven with logical certainty — and the university's answer was to make him burn his own books.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“From the existence of one thing, you can never prove the existence of another — so causes, substances, and other minds all lie beyond strict certainty, and life must run on probability instead.”
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