A bit of background: Hume was an empiricist, he thought that knowledge of the world comes from our experience of the world (i.e. experimentation) along with log

A bit of background: Hume was an empiricist, he thought that knowledge of the world comes from our experience of the world (i.e. experimentation) along with logical reasoning. But he was also concerned about the relationship between experience and knowledge, that is, why is it that we think some experiences produce knowledge and others do not. This is where the problem of induction comes from: using the tools that produce knowledge (experience and reason), is it possible to prove-out the required connection between experience and knowledge and if it isn't what do we do?