Combining Philosophers

Ideas for Rescher,N/Oppenheim,P, Dougherty,T/Rysiew,P and Nelson Goodman

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14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 3. Instrumentalism

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Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps [Goodman]

14. Science / B. Scientific Theories / 5. Commensurability

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We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another [Goodman]

14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem

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Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised [Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew]

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Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form [Goodman, by Putnam]

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Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely [Goodman]