Hume argues that we come to expect that the future will resemble the past because of custom or habit.

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Hume famously argued that our expectation that the future will resemble the past is not based on reason or empirical evidence, but rather on custom or habit. This is known as the problem of induction, and it casts doubt on our ability to make reliable predictions about the future based on past experience.

Hume Argues That We Come to Expect That the Future