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Rudolph Hermann Lotze synthesized two disparate theories of this relation; he separately borrowed a Scholastic term to argue that wholes were defined by this relation’s “transeunt” form. Bertrand Russell argued that this relation is a “relic of a bygone age,” like the monarchy, in a 1912 article “On the Notion of” it. Roderick Chisholm coined the name for a theory of this relation first advanced by Thomas Reid, which holds it applies to agents. This relation can be established by the methods of agreement, difference, (*) residue, (-5[1])and concomitant variations, which are known as Mill’s methods. Resemblance, contiguity, and this relation (-5[1])are the three “natural relations” according to a book that interrupted Kant’s “dogmatic slumber” by claiming this relation is mere custom. For 10 points, name this relation that David Hume (10[1])argued was merely “constant conjunction” using the example of colliding billiard balls. ■END■ (10[2])

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