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The problem of induction

Hume's question: what reason do we have to think the future will be like the past, without using induction to prove it? We can't live without induction - but expecting the future to be like the past is safer when we know why things happen.

Depth 1 · Foundation

You can state Hume's problem, explain why neither thinking nor experience seems to answer it, and say what makes induction safer.

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    You can state Hume's problem, explain why neither thinking nor experience seems to answer it, and say what makes induction safer.

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    Knowing by thinkingHume showed the future being like the past can't be known by thinking alone.The chain of reasonsProving induction by induction goes round in a circle.

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  10. 10The problem of inductionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology

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