Paradox
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Hume's Paradox of the Future
In Hume's view, any universal scientific claims are ultimately a matter of belief. This means that our belief that nature will always act as nature has acted up until now is something that we take on scientific faith. We don't really have any reason to believe that the laws of nature, whatever they are, don't themselves change. And so you've never seen the law of gravity, you've seen a feather fall,. You've seen a shoe fall,you've seen a brick fall. In order to make the broader claim, you are taking that on belief, or on faith, as kirgard might have it. Yes. That sounds like a contradiction, but perhaps isn't.
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