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Hume's Argument Against Induction By David Hume

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Hume’s argument against induction is that “only meaningful propositions are relations of idea and matter of fact”. This meaning that the claim must be priori or a posteriori. However, Hume contradicts himself because his own argument does not meet his own criteria of a meaningful proposition. This is because his statement is not a relation of ideas or a matter of fact. The grue-problem is almost like predicting what will happen in the future based on what happened in the past. For example, Sandeep decides to eat a sandwich, but his girlfriend stops him because she says it will turn into a monster after the first bite. Sandeep then says that when he ate this type of sandwich before it did not turn into a monster. So based on past experiences
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