Summarize Humes argument in Section IV of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Specifically, discuss the role of experience in our ability to obtain knowledge of contingent things, and explicate the basis of Humes skeptical doubts concerning the adequacy of past experience as a basis for making projections about the future. Describe Nelson Goodmans New Riddle of Induction, and discuss the relationship to Humes problem.
The Problem of Induction
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