Hume tells us that "causes and effects are discoverable, not by ..."
A) reason but by experience.
B) the body but by the soul.
C) experiments but by recollection.
D) honesty but by guile.

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Hume argues that causes and effects are not discoverable by reason alone, but rather through experience. Hume famously claimed that we cannot know with certainty that one event causes another as there is no logical necessity to infer causation from one event to another. Instead, we only infer causation based on the repeated observation of constant conjunction between two events. Therefore, the correct answer is A) reason but by experience.

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