ABSTRACT
Different philosophers have expressed different views, often irrecon cilable with one another, on the subject of induction; especially on that of its justification, or, as it is usually called, the problem of induction. In general terms, the problem may be put so : What is the justification of the belief that the future resembles the past, that the unobserved resembles the observed? Authors on induction seldom fail to stress the importance of inductive reasoning in science and every day life, intending to indicate thereby the indispensability of some answer to the problem for an adequate theory of knowledge.
