Hume's Argument for Induction

Trying to justify the idea that the future will be like the past by saying the future has always been like the past is not a satisfactory way of justifying what's known as induction. That sort of justification would only work if you're already persuaded that induction is a rational method of inference. Hume doesn't actually want to say that it's wrong that we should do that, but his point is that when we extrapolate in that way, we are relying on this brute animal instinct which leads us to expect the same in the future as we've experienced in the past. It is an assumption, an instinct. It's not founded on any kind of godlike insight into why things behave as they