ABSTRACT
Against the Humean account, according to which the regularities we find around us impose themselves upon us through repeated experience, we saw that Popper argued that the experience of repetition must be preceded by the adoption of a point of view, even a theory or an expectation. The need to seek regularities and impose such theories on our environment is ‘clearly inborn and based on drives, or instincts. There is the general need for a world that conforms to our expectations.’ Unfortunately, there is no reason why the real world should be such a world. This is what we learn from Hume’s attack on the principle of induction. Our expectations can fail us; it is simply irrational to rely on them.
