On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Peter Tillers wrote:
> "The" problem of induction is many problems.
..
>
> Then there is the _Humean_ version of the problem of induction: if the
> concept of causation is incoherent or untenable, how can one ever draw
> any inferences about unknown events or about events that have not yet
> happened?
Another problem is which side Hume would take if he could join this
discussion! :-) After all, wasn't it Hume who argued that Aquinas (I
think, therefore I am) was foolish to suppose that he could not rely on
his observations of the world or even his own mind? Something tells me he
would relish feeding ideas to both positions, chuckling all the while...
Scott Burgess
