David Hume’s Notion of Causality: Implications for African Philosophy

ABSTRACT
This paper examines the concept of David Hume’s causality and whether or not
it has any implication for African Philosophy. It would be recalled that David
Hume had earlier on objected to the notion of causality and maintained that it is
our association of objects or events that gradually become habitual which, in
turn, give rise to impressionable source of the idea of causality. For Hume, we
erroneously conceive of causality on the basis of three modes of relationship
which he identified as priority in time, contiguity and constant conjunction.
Thus, David Hume rejected causality, on the grounds that it is impossible to
achieve necessary connection in causal relationship.