1. Popper's Falsification
... induction which he also rejects. Popper is sensitive to the problem of induction formulated by Hume in the 1700's which can be shown through the use of an example. An inductive argument could be every morning for the past 3000 years the sun has come up, therefore the sun will probably come up tomorrow. This argument sounds good, but what actually ... warrants the claim the sun will come up tomorrow? Hume proposed that to inductive arguments we need to add a principle, such as, nature is uniform or the future resembles the past. This would then turn our argument into for the past 3000 ye...
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