The Nature & Limits of Inductive Reasoning

The problem of induction:
*Induction is the process of drawing inferences from past experiences of cause & effect sequences... and projecting one's expectations to present or future events.
*Hume's point is that an "effect" cannot be validly deduced from its "cause"
*The inference from "cause" to "effect" is based on past experiences of "constant conjunction," and these past experiences . . . .accustom or habituate us to believe that one event is the cause of another, which we believe to be the effect of the prior event.
This is what leads us to believe that . . . .the future will always resemble the past. It is all a matter of CUSTOM or HABIT.
This is the foundation of . . . .