According to David Hume, why can't past experience justify claims about the future?
A) Our knowledge of past experience depends on memory, which cannot be known to be accurate.
B) Tricky question! Hume does think that past experience can justify claims about the future.
C) Because we can never know if we are the same person as the person we seem to remember being, past experience cannot be a guide to claims about our future.
D) We can never know whether or not the future will be like the past.
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