6. According to Popper, what is the logical problem for Hume\'s explanation of i

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6. According to Popper, what is the logical problem for Hume's explanation of inductive reasoning? (a) We cannot explain habits and expectations by repetition, because repetition presupposes habits (b) Habits do not typically originate in repetition, so Hume's psychological account of habit- (c) The fact that it is possible for dogs to have reactions without any previous repetitions of the (d) Repetitive sequences of similar events cannot be shown to follow logically from the (e) As a matter of logic, it is impossible to deductively infer that all X's are Y's on the basis of a finite and expectations formation is incorrect stimuli shows that belief-formation does not start with repetition expectations people have about those events number of observations of X's

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(d) Repetitive sequences of similar events cannot be shown to follow logically from the expectations people have about those events.

For Popper, there is no such thing as induction by repetition (simple enumerative induction), as is shown by the fact that it is false that "The sun will rise and set once in 24 hours" (counterexample: the midnight sun at the Earth’s poles) and "All bread nourishes" (counterexample: ergotism in a French village).

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