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Well that is not really what the article is about. It's more about the problem of induction itself, and the problems of its use as basis for both Science and Philosophical endeavors. The article only made a flimsy drive into the subject, and the Wikipedia article does a much better job.

"Problem of induction" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

"...First formulated by David Hume, the problem of induction questions our reasons for believing that the future will resemble the past, or more broadly it questions predictions about unobserved things based on previous observations. This inference from the observed to the unobserved is known as "inductive inferences", and Hume, while acknowledging that everyone does and must make such inferences, argued that there is no non-circular way to justify them, thereby undermining one of the Enlightenment pillars of rationality..."




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