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First formulated by David Hume, the '''problem of induction''' questions our reasons for believing that the future will resemble the past, or more broadly it questions predictions about unobserved things based on previous observations. This inference from the observed to the unobserved is known as "inductive inferences", and Hume, while acknowledging that everyone does and must make such inferences, argued that there is no non-circular way to justify them, thereby undermining one of the Enlightenment pillars of [[rationalism]]. While David Hume is credited with raising the issue in Western analytic [[philosophy]] in the 18th century, the [[Pyrrhonism]] school of Hellenistic philosophy and the Cārvāka school of ancient [[India]]n philosophy had expressed skepticism about inductive justification long prior to that. The traditional inductivist view is that all claimed empirical laws, either in everyday life or through the scientific method, can be justified through some form of reasoning.

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