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Full Idea
It is impossible that any arguments from experience can prove the resemblance of the past to the future, since all these arguments are founded on the supposition of this resemblance.
Gist of Idea
Induction can't prove that the future will be like the past, since induction assumes this
Source
David Hume (Enquiry Conc Human Understanding [1748], IV.II.32)
Book Ref
Hume,David: 'Enquiries Conc. Human Understanding, Morals', ed/tr. Selby-Bigge/Nidditch [OUP 1975], p.38