Lost Cause: Hume, Causation, and Rasselas

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Abstract

This chapter uses David Hume's account of causation as a basis for re-examining Samuel Johnson's Rasselas.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reading 1759: Literary Culture in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Britain and France
Editors	Shaun Regan
Place of Publication	Lewisburg
Publisher	Bucknell University Press
Pages	149-168
ISBN (Print)	1611484782
Publication status	Published (in print/issue) - 2012

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