Has Popper Provided a Satisfactory Answer to the Problems Identified by Hume? Introduction         In this essay, I will answer the above question, talking about Hume's views on induction and empiricism and whether or not Popper answered Hume's problems. I will start buy talking about both philosophers, then comparing them in a conclusion. David Hume         David Hume was born in Edinburgh in 1711, he spent most of his childhood in Ninewells, his family's home on the Whitadder …showed first 75 words of 490 total…

…showed last 75 words of 490 total…wet, and that is because I have not yet experienced water that is dry. This is just only the closest assumption I could make to prove that there are exceptions to Hume's flaw of induction.         After Hume's view of induction, there was his problem of causation. Hume was the first philosopher to identify was causation really is. Causation is defined as "the fact that something causes an effect, or the action of causing an effect."