It is really odd that we often forget we don’t actually *know* anything about the future. That’s kinda what makes it the future. The future is that which we know nothing about. Everything we think we know is necessarily some distorted refraction/reflection of the past
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Replying to @weskerfoot
Maybe a little, though my knowledge of Hume ends at his Wikipedia page
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Replying to @vgr
Well, search "problem of induction". The original source material is actually very readable though if you ever feel the need to read some early modern philosophy ("An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding")
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Replying to @weskerfoot
I’m familiar enough with the basic idea at a shallow second-hand gloss level for my needs 
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