Consider this passage from Hume:
"We have said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and that all our experimental conclusions proceed upon the supposition that the future will be conformable to the past. To endeavor, therefore, the proof of this last supposition by probable arguments, or arguments regarding existence, must be evidently going in a circle and taking that for granted which is the very point in question." Hume is here
A) stating the so-called "problem of induction."
B) arguing deduction cannot be proved inductively.
C) claiming deductive proofs of the principle that the future will resemble the past beg the question.
D) arguing the idea of cause and effect is innate.
A
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