An idea from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

Bread has fed you every time you ate it, so you expect the next loaf to feed you too. No argument gets you from past to future, since every argument from experience already assumes the future will match the past. That’s reasoning in a circle.

From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume

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