A Proof of Induction?
Skip other details (including permanent urls, DOI, citation information)March 2007, Volume 7, No. 2, pp. 1-5
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Abstract
Does the past rationally bear on the future? David Hume argued that we lack good reason to think that it does. He insisted in particular that we lack - and forever will lack - anything like a demonstrative proof of such a rational bearing. A surprising mathematical result can be read as an invitation to reconsider Hume's confidence.
