the former group one need only to sense the object or summon the memory to justify a statement; in contrast, cause-effect reasoning seems to involve a more elaborate process, one that deserves our attention (16). Hume believes that our cause-effect beliefs are justified by inductive inferences; this then becomes the focus of his enquiry.
             Hume believes that if inductive inferences (which serve as the justification for our causal beliefs) were justified, then they would be justified either by reasoning alone or by appeal to experience. Let us first consider justification through reasoning alone. If inductive inferences were justified by reasoning alone, then given a good inductive argument, the conjunction of its premises with the negation of its conclusion would imply a contradiction. Take any good inductive infe
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