Hume himself does not use the word "induction". But what has come to be called "the problem of induction" comes down to us from him. What follows is not a detailed analysis of Hume's text. I will ...

In the 18th century, the philosopher David Hume observed that induction—inferring the future based on what's happened in the past—can never be reliable. In 1997, SFI Professor David Wolpert with his ...

Back in the 18th century, David Hume raised the problem of induction, which basically stated that all of our reasoning is based on the assumption the future is likely to be similar to the past. If ...