Did Popper solve Hume's problem?
@article{Lindh1993DidPS, title={Did Popper solve Hume's problem?}, author={Allan Goddard Lindh}, journal={Nature}, year={1993}, volume={366}, pages={105-106} }
How do we know the Sun will rise tomorrow? Hume's concern raises two questions: the problem of empirical inference was solved in this century by Popper; an approach to the stability of nature in time is outlined here.
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