What was David Hume's problem of induction?

Hume could then be, as Don Garrett and David Owen have argued, advancing a “thesis in cognitive psychology”, rather than making a normative claim about justification (Owen 1999; Garrett 2002). read more

David Hume. Few philosophers are as associated with induction as David Hume. He described the problem in An Enquiry concerning Human Understanding, §4, based on his epistemological framework. Here, "reason" refers to deductive reasoning and "induction" refers to inductive reasoning. read more

(Hume, pp. 193-4; Salmon, p. 230) Salmon’s urn example (p. 231): We have an urn full of balls. read more

The problem of meeting this challenge, while evading Hume’s argument against the possibility of doing so, has become known as “the problem of induction”. Hume’s argument is one of the most famous in philosophy. read more