Abstract
Publisher Summary This chapter describes Hume's argument about induction and offers some criticism of it along with its conclusion. It also reviews few popular philosophical responses to Hume's argument. Hume's argument is generally presented as targeting inductive reasoning. The argument essentially exploits the differences between induction and deduction. A contradiction is involved for the building of a good deductive argument to be true, but its conclusion to be false. A good deductive argument is necessarily truth preserving. As per Hume's argument, an inductive argument cannot be used to justify inferring an inductive argument's conclusion from its premises on pain of circularity. Also, a deductive argument cannot be used to justify this as there is no deductive argument from the premises of an inductive argument to its conclusion. Hence, there is no way to justify the step from an inductive argument's premises to its conclusion. In conclusion, Hume states that one is not entitled to opinions regarding what one has not observed.
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