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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
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James Fales married Anne Brock in 1655. They had eight children. He died 10 July 1708 in Dedham, Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Massachusetts and New York.
The world contains objective causal relations and universals, both of which are intimately connected. If these claims are true, they must have far-reaching consequences, breathing new life into the theory of empirical knowledge and reinforcing epistemological realism. Without causes and universals, Professor Fales argues, realism is defeated, and idealism or scepticism wins. Fales begins with a detailed analysis of David Hume's argument that we have no direct experience of necessary connections between events, concluding that Hume was mistaken on this fundamental point. Then, adopting the view of Armstrong and others that causation is grounded in a second-order relation between universals, h...