Hempel's confirmation theory
argued that the solution is to differentiate between hypotheses, which
apply to all things of a certain class, and evidence statements, which
apply to only one thing. Goodman's famous counterargument was to
introduce the color grue, which applies to all things examined before a certain time t just in case they are green, but also to other...
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Author
Nelson Goodman
Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906, Somerville, Massachusetts – 25 November 1998, Needham, Massachusetts) was an American philosopher, known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism and aesthetics.
Goodman graduated from Harvard University in 1928. During the...