Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief by Colin Howson

Hume's Problem: Induction and the Justification of Belief

Induction and the Justification of Belief

Colin Howson

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nonfiction history philosophy challenging informative medium-paced
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In the mid-eighteenth century David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. But physical theory routinely predicts the values of observable magnitudes within very small ranges of error. The...

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