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Custom and expectation
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Custom connects repeated experience to expectation. Explaining that transition does not by itself prove that an unobserved case must resemble the cases already encountered.
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Guided course · Module 9 · Lesson 51
Habit, causation and the self
Hume traces our expectations beyond observed cases to custom, and questions whether we ever perceive an unchanging self. His account of the self leaves a difficulty he kept open.