An idea from Critique of Pure Reason

So the real question is how synthetic judgments can be known in advance. Hume came nearest to it and called cause and effect a habit of the mind. By that logic mathematics would be impossible too, and Hume’s good sense would have refused that.

From Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant

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