Hume showed we can’t prove the future will resemble the past, and some say that makes science a matter of faith. A physicist argues otherwise: science runs on…
Hume showed we can’t prove the future will resemble the past, and some say that makes science a matter of faith. A physicist argues otherwise: science runs on guessing, testing, and discarding, not on assuming the past repeats. Does Hume’s famous problem really threaten science?
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