Mired in Grue

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In this connection, see R. Schwartz, I. Scheffler and N. Goodman, “An Improvement in the Theory of Projectibility”, J. ofPhilosophy, 67, 1970 and N. Goodman, 94 “On Kahane’s Confusion”J. of Philosophy, 69, 197. Abstracts of these papers are included in the annotated bibliography, pp. 411 and 321.
Mary Hesse, “Ramifications of ‘grue’”,British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 20. 1969.
“On Vindicating Induction”,Philosophy of Science, 30, 1963. I have tried to develop his approach in F.J. Clendinnen “Theorising and Empirical Belief” in P.J. Riggs (ed.)Natural Kinds, Laws of Nature and Scientific Methodology. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1996.

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Clenndinen, F.J. Mired in Grue. Metascience 5, 86–94 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02988880

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