Hume's Problem —— Induction and the Justification of Belief

----- 休谟的问题：归纳与信仰的正当性

ISBN: 9780198250388 出版年：2003 页码：272 Howson, Colin Clarendon Press

In the mid-eighteenth century, David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. But physical theory routinely predicts the values of observable magnitudes within very small ranges of error. The chance of this sort of predictive success without a true theory suggests that Hume's argument is flawed. However, Colin Howson argues that there is no flaw and examines the implications of this disturbing conclusion; he also offers a solution to one of the central problems of Western philosophy: the problem of induction.