The Problem of Induction
Karl Popper, Troels Eggers Hansen · 2014
This argument will be presented here in detail: it is the crucial idea of the whole problem area. The presentation will deviate from Hume on some points of only minor relevance to the subject. (In particular, Hume’s circular inference will be replaced by a so-called regressus in infinitum.*1) This does not, however, alter Hume’s fundamental idea that in analysing any inductive generalisation, one will necessarily encounter impermissible logical operations.