An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Causes are learned only by experience. Adam, perfectly rational on his first day, couldn’t have known from looking at water that it would drown him. Before you ever saw one billiard ball strike another, the second ball could just as well have stayed put.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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