Early Buddhist Theory of Knowledge c7.45

c7.45

² *A Treatise of Human Nature*, Vol I, Part III, Section XIV Cp p 169 'If we define a cause to be an object precedent and contiguous to one another and where all the objects resembling the former are placed in a like relation of priority and contiguity to those objects that resemble the latter, we may easily conceive that there is no absolute nor metaphysical necessity, that every beginning of existence should be attended with such an object'