A general problem with inductive knowledge, if it is completely atheoretical, is that it cannot justify a claim that what has always happened before must happen again. Most of us are willing to live with inferences that various things will continue to happen in the ways they have always happened so far.

XREF: Connects to Hume's problem of induction and the is-ought/induction problem in philosophy of science.

Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, loc. 601