Michael Hoover quotes Louse Antony on Hume:
> Hume's 'skeptical solution' to his own problem amounted to an abandonment
> of the externalist hopes of his time. Belief in induction, he concluded,
> was a custom, a tendency of mind ingrained by nature, one of a 'species
> of natural instincts, which no reasoning or process of the thought and
> understanding is able, either to produce or to prevent [_An Enquiry
> Concerning Human Understanding_, Indianapolis: Hackett, 1977, p. 30.]
> For better or worse, Hume contended, we're stuck with belief in
> induction - we are constituionally incapable of doubting it and
> conceptually barred from justifying it. The best we can do is to
> explain it.
How could Hume reach this conclusion without employing induction?
Ted Winslow
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