...then we have a valid argument. Hume, focusing on the latter of these two points, puts it like this: "If reason determined us, it would proceed upon that...which we have had no experience, must resemble those, oj which we have had experience, and that the course of nature continues always uniformly the same...

...inferences] it wou'd proceed upon that principle [which I shall henceforth call the "Uniformity Thesis"] that instances, of which we have had no experience,...course of nature continues always uniformly the same, (from 1 and 2) 4. The arguments upon which such a proposition [the Uniformity Thesis] may be supposed...

...of inductive reasoning, a weakness that Hume focused on. The method, said Hume, depends on the axiom "Instances of which we have had no experience, must...experience, and that the course of nature continues always the same." But this cannot be proved logically. We must be aware that if we have used inductive reasoning...

...conjunction, it appears that we are assuming the principle or at least acting as though we assumed the principle that 'instances of which we have had no...the course of nature continues always uniformly the same'.6 But this principle is neither intuitively certain nor demonstrable. For the notion of a change...

...based on reasoning or imagination? If reason determined the course, then it would take the help of the principle, "that instances, of which we have had no...experience, and that the course of nature continues always unirformly the same." Clearly this cannot be the rational principle. For experience cannot guarantee...

...certain association (of ideas) and relation of perceptions. "If reason determined us, it would be on this principle - That instances of which we have had no...must resemble those of which we have had experience; for that the course of nature continues uniformly the same. Now there can be no demonstrative arguments...

...it by asking whether our procedure is governed by reason. If it were, he maintains that our reason 'would proceed upon that principle, that instances...course of nature continues always uniformly the same' (T 89). But now we come to the next of his crucial denials. For he shows convincingly that the principle...

...clear and precise." He concludes that there is no justification for our habitual tendency to believe that instances, of which we have had no experience,...the course of nature continues always uniformly the same.62 I will argue in this section that if Hume were right in his assumption, his conclusion would...

...conditions musta.pp\y. We have thus returned to the undemonstrable assumption that nature is uniform: 'that instances, of which we have had no experience,...experience, and that the course of nature continues always the same'.25 There is, however, no logical or empirical reason why this should be so, and therefore...

...process must assume the premise "that instances of which we have had no experience must resemble138 diose of which we have had experience, and that the course...of nature continues always uniformly the same", in other words, Ûiefolure unknown139 will resemble the past known, for the course of nature is assumed...