Reply to Israel on the New Riddle of Induction
Philosophia 40 (3):549-552 (2012)
| Abstract | Israel 2004 claims that numerous philosophers have misinterpreted Goodman’s original ‘New Riddle of Induction’, and weakened it in the process, because they do not define ‘grue’ as referring to past observations. Both claims are false: Goodman clearly took the riddle to concern the maximally general problem of “projecting” any type of characteristic from a given realm of objects into another, and since this problem subsumes Israel’s, Goodman formulated a stronger philosophical challenge than the latter surmises. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Nelson Goodman grue induction Nicod's Criterion confirmation projectibility | |||||||||
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