As Heidegger proposed in ‘Being and Time’, the problem of existence ‘not only claims that questioning the meaning of existence is superfluous, but also acknowledges the delay of this problem’. Hume also doubted the most fundamental concepts in people’s ideas. He believed that all reasoning about causality comes from people’s constant association with experience, and this questioning of the necessity of causal relationships further led to questioning the rationality of induction. This questioning of the law of causality fundamentally shook the foundation of philosophy, metaphysics, and natural science. Many philosophers after Hume have tried to answer this question, but there are imperfections and deficiencies in them.

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