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It is one of the enduring ironies of intellectual history that the tradition which has done most to champion the supremacy of reason has been least successful in providing a rational account of why reason should be trusted. The Enlightenment project, broadly conceived, rested upon the conviction that human beings…

• What irony does the writer identify at the heart of the rationalist tradition?
• What is the essential problem Hume identified with the principle of induction?