Timeline for Is Goodman's new riddle of induction a restatement of Hume's problem of induction?
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| Jan 8, 2018 at 9:17 | answer | added | alanf | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 7, 2018 at 2:29 | answer | added | Mark Andrews | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 6, 2018 at 21:50 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackPhilosophy/status/949760192241192960 | ||
| Jan 6, 2018 at 17:25 | answer | added | Geoffrey Thomas♦ | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jan 6, 2018 at 9:43 | vote | accept | Frank | ||
| Jan 5, 2018 at 23:42 | answer | added | Bumble | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 21:50 | comment | added | Conifold | Wikipedia has a detailed discussion of the contrast in New riddle of induction. Hume assumed that we form inductive generalizations by habit on all predicates, Goodman pointed out that the habit only works on some "lawlike" ones, green but not grue. The problem with "uniformity of nature" is that this "principle" does not tell us which is which, past experience does not distinguish green from grue, so generalizing "grue" will be just as "uniform". The problem with "uniformity" is that it is either vacuous or false. | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 21:25 | answer | added | PMar | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 16:35 | history | edited | Frank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Made question more clear (in my opinion)
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| Jan 5, 2018 at 16:21 | history | asked | Frank | CC BY-SA 3.0 |