If your brother lives for at least seven years after giving you the money, the gift will be exempt from inheritance tax. If he dies within seven years, the value of his gift to you would be added to his estate and any tax due would be paid out of his estate.
: Reasoning that seeks to establish the relationship between causes and effects Rules for using causal reasoning 1. It can be difficult to establish clear cause/effect relationships 2. This preview has intentionally blurred sections. Sign up to view the full version.
In the Treatise, Hume identifies two ways that the mind associates ideas, via natural relations and via philosophical relations. Natural relations have a connecting principle such that the imagination naturally leads us from one idea to another. The three natural relations are resemblance, contiguity, and cause and effect. Of these, Hume tells us that causation is the most prevalent. But cause and effect is also one of the philosophical relations, where the relata have no connecting principle, instead being artificially juxtaposed by the mind.