Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

Goodman, N. (1955). Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. Harvard University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1955

Link

https://archive.org/details/fact-fiction-and-forecast

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Counterfactuals
  • Goodman's (1955) grue puzzle

    This sourceOpening chapters set out the problem of counterfactual conditionals and projectibility; introduces the grue 'new riddle of induction,' exposing how counterfactual truth depends on which predicates are projectible/natural. Verified support for the similarity-semantics challenge.

• Inductive Reasoning
  • Goodman's new riddle of induction

    This sourceGoodman grue puzzle and the problem of counterfactual conditionals; challenge to similarity-based semantics.

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