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  1. In philosophy, a consideration of the
  2. connection between cause and effect, usually
  3. referred to as the `causal relationship'. If
  4. an event is assumed to have a cause, two
  5. important questions arise: what is the
  6. relationship between cause and effect, and
  7. must it follow that every event is caused?
  8. The Scottish philosopher David Hume
  9. considered these questions to be, in
  10. principle, unanswerable.
  11.