„NOVÁ ZÁHADA INDUKCIE“ A TESTOVANIE VLASTNOSTÍ

• Authors: Lukáš Bielik

Title variants

EN

“New riddle of induction” and testing of qualities

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The paper deals with the “New Riddle of Induction” set forth by N. Goodman in his Fact, Fiction, and Forecast. The problem is introduced through the definition of grue predicate. The relation between the grue hypothesis and empirical evidence is examined. Goodman’s underlying thesis about the neutrality of empirical evidence is undermined. The intelligibility of the idea that disjunctive properties such as Grue can be observed and seen is questioned. A solution of Goodman’s riddle is outlined by means of the definition of the identity of empirical properties and further developed through postulating of the necessary condition of induction executability which prohibits the inference from “Some a, b, c, d emeralds are green” to the hypothesis “All emeralds are grue”.

Keywords

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NEW RIDDLE OF INDUCTION; GRUE PREDICATE; EXECUTABILITY; EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 66
• Issue: 8
• Pages: 746 – 754

Contributors

author

Lukáš Bielik

• Katedra logiky a metodológie vied FiF UK, Šafárikovo nám. 6, 811 02 Bratislava, Slovak Republic