Hume's Problem

Author : Colin Howson

Hardback

Published : Thursday 2 November 2000

ISBN : 9780198250371

Price : €49.13

Description

A solution to one of the central, unsolved problems of Western philosophy, the problem of induction. David Hume argued that successful prediction tells us nothing about the truth of the predicting theory. Howson claims that Hume's argument is correct, and examines what follows about the relation between science and its empirical base.

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