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| Author | Nelson Goodman |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Induction andconditionals;New Riddle of Induction |
| Genre | Philosophy |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Publication date | 1955 |
| Publication place | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Media type | |
| Pages | 126 |
| ISBN | 978-0-674-29071-6 |
| OCLC | 655427717 |
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (1955) is a book byNelson Goodman in which he explores some problems regardingscientific law andcounterfactual conditionals and presents hisNew Riddle of Induction.Hilary Putnam described the book as "one of the few books that every serious student of philosophy in our timehas to have read."[1] According toJerry Fodor, "it changed, probably permanently, the way we think about the problem of induction, and hence about a constellation of related problems like learning and the nature of rational decision."[2]Noam Chomsky andHilary Putnam attended some of the lectures on which the book is based as undergraduate students at theUniversity of Pennsylvania, leading to a lifelong debate between the two over the question of whether the problems presented in the book imply that there must be aninnate ordering of hypotheses.[citation needed]
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