Posted: Nov 18, 2018 7:26 pm
scott1328 wrote:If probability theory didn’t work, we wouldn’t use it.
The OP’s question seems to be Hume’s problem of Induction rephrased.
Maybe. But it does seem like there's a deeper issue going on. There's the brute fact aspect involving observation but there's some kind of modeling mystery in there too. At least for me.