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Material Theory – Oh Yea! (feat. Kid Don)(Prod. by The Truth) @MaterialTheory @PayProOVP

In the ever shifting climate of the Hip-Hop world, Material Theory stands as an embodiment of several aspects of the culture: lyricism, fashion, self-reflection, and experimentation. Though young, Material Theory presents themselves as big league contenders with seasoned sonic grace and precision. Their debut EP, Blunt Promises, releasing in the late 2016, demonstrates as much, and delivers a…

In a formal theory of induction, inductive inferences are licensed by universal schemas. In a material theory of induction, inductive inferences are licensed by facts. With this change in the conception of the nature of induction, I argue that Hume’s celebrated “problem of induction” can no longer be set up and is thereby dissolved.

The problem of induction, also known as “Hume’s problem of induction,” is a demonstration that there can be no justification for any rule of inductive inference. Take the rule that lets us infer from all past A’s being B that the next A will be B. The rule is not deductive. Past performance, as the saying goes, is no guarantee of future performance. Do we justify it by noting that the rule always has worked, so we should expect on inductive grounds that its next application to work? That would be circular. The difficulty is seen instantly, yet it is so hard to escape that it has become the paradigm of an intractable philosophical problem.