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Comment author: Caledonian2 20 May 2008 08:31:08PM 1 point [-]

A totally rational agent who denied the validity of induction would be unable to think.

The Hume's complaint is that there is uncertainty and doubt in all conclusions. That's a "problem" in precisely the same way that Godel's Incompleteness Theorems are a "problem" for our attempts to make a consistent and complete model of mathematics.