Full Idea
Observed regularities provide reason to believe that they will be repeated only to the extent that they provide evidence of hidden necessary connections, which hold timelessly.
Gist of Idea
Observed regularities are only predictable if we assume hidden necessity
Source
Thomas Nagel (The View from Nowhere [1986], V.5)
Book Reference
Nagel,Thomas: 'The View from Nowhere' [OUP 1989], p.84