Where sceptics fail | with Alex O'Connor
Philosophy For Our Times
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Hume's Answer to Induction
Hume doesn't just say well we kind of just have to believe an induction in the sense of well we better do that because if we don't we're going to run into problems. Hume describes it as custom he says that this is like the answer but it's not an answer to nihilism or showing why it's false or showing if it's justified or not. You're you're left in a fairly disfant dis-satisfactory state philosophically that you can't justify it But practically it makes no difference because you're never going to be able to abandon that belief.
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