The sun has always risen in the past.
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Therefore, the sun will rise tomorrow.
The conclusion here does not follow, according to Hume.
What is needed is an additional premise:
The future will resemble the past.
What might justify this premise? Maybe this:
In the past, the future has always resembled the past.
Therefore, in the future the future will resemble the past.
But this again needs the premise:
The future will resemble the past.
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