An influential 1973 paper by David Lewis named after this phenomenon introduced the concept of "comparative similarity" (*) in offering a counterfactual development of this idea.
The 17th discussion of Al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers is dedicated to an examination of this phenomenon. The first fully-developed probabilistic account of this phenomenon was given in a posthumously published 1956 work by Hans Reichenbach, which uses the "screening-off" criterion to explain this phenomenon. An influential 1973 paper by David Lewis named after this phenomenon introduced the concept of "comparative similarity" (*) in offering a counterfactual development of this idea. In The Critique of Pure Reason, this phenomenon is, along with "inherence and subsistence" and "community," one of the three "Categories of Relation;" earlier, in the preface to his Prolegomena, Kant wrote that a notable attack on this principle interrupted his "dogmatic slumber." That attack on this phenomenon, which states that it appears to be real only due to the conjunction of one event following another was formulated by David Hume. For 10 points, identify this phenomenon, the necessity of one thing resulting in another.
The 17th discussion of Al-Ghazali's Incoherence of the Philosophers is dedicated to an examination of this phenomenon.
causation or causality or cause and effect [prompt on "necessity" before mention]