THE RAVEN PARADOX, LOGIC, AND METHODS OF TESTING (Havrani paradox, logika, metody testovania)

• Authors: Lukas Bielik
• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the logical milieu of the Paradox of ravens, identified by Hempel in his 'Studies in the Logic of Confirmation'. It deals with Hempel's interpretations of Nicod's criterion of confirmation as well as with its inadmissible consequences. The author, subsequently, suggests an epistemological and semantic specification of empirical properties, i.e., of their identity; then he formulates a criterion of the test of properties expressed by empirical hypothesis. Finally, he proposes a procedural conception of confirmation by means of the testing procedure schema. The confirmation is, therefore, conceived as an attribute which can be ascribed to a hypothesis through the process of its testing. The methods of testing are central to the hypothesis's qualification as confirmed.

Keywords

EN

CONFIRMATION; EMPIRICAL PROPERTIES; HEMPEL CARL; LOGIC; TESTING PROCEDURE; THE PARADOX OF RAVENS

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences and Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Sciences of Czech Republic
• Journal: Organon F. medzinárodný časopis pre analytickú filozofiu
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 213-225
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Lukas Bielik

• Lukas Bielik, Filozoficka fakulta, Univerzita Komenskeho, Gondova 2, 814 99 Bratislava, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11SKAAAA09698