When Hume says that "all events seem entirely loose and separate, " he means to say that a. there is no necessary connection to be observed among them. b. there is no constant conjunction of events to be discovered in the world. c. our experience of events is not to be trusted. r d. you can't really rely on anything. To acquire knowledge independently of what we experience is a. to gain knowledge in an empirical way. b. to gain knowledge in an a priori way. c. to gain knowledge in an a posteriori way. d. all of the above. The idea of a cause can be described as a. necessary connection plus causal coherence. b. constant conjunction plus relativistic connectivity. c. constant conjunction plus necessary connection. d. necessary conjunction plus the Cartesian cogito