 Our mind forms a habit to expect or to infer the effect from a cause upon repeatedly experiencing events which occur in sequence. Thereby, we produce a connection between objects or events that goes “beyond what is immediately present to the senses” (1739: book I, part III, section II [1978: 73]). Our senses and our memory provide us only with finitely many instances of objects or events which occur jointly, and from which our minds form inferential habits. Still these inferential habits apply also to future, as of yet unobserved instances of the regularity. In Hume’s words,