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new riddle of induction

The new Riddle of Induction challenges how we justify believing that future events will resemble past ones. It questions whether we can justify using past experiences to predict the future without falling into circular reasoning—assuming what we seek to prove. Simply put, it asks: on what logical grounds can we confidently say that patterns we've seen before will continue? This problem highlights the difficulty in guaranteeing induction's reliability, prompting philosophers to seek better reasons for trusting that the world behaves consistently based on experience.