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Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Nelson Goodman
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Description for Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, index. BIC Classification: HP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 139 x 9. Weight in Grams: 180.
Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic-a book that, according to Science, raised a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate. How is it that we feel confident in generalizing from experience in some ways but not in others? How are generalizations that are warranted to be distinguished from those that are not? Goodman shows that these questions resist formal solution and his demonstration has been taken by nativists like Chomsky and Fodor as proof that neither ... Read more
Here, in a new edition, is Nelson Goodman's provocative philosophical classic-a book that, according to Science, raised a storm of controversy when it was first published in 1954, and one that remains on the front lines of philosophical debate. How is it that we feel confident in generalizing from experience in some ways but not in others? How are generalizations that are warranted to be distinguished from those that are not? Goodman shows that these questions resist formal solution and his demonstration has been taken by nativists like Chomsky and Fodor as proof that neither ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674290716
SKU
V9780674290716
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99-40
About Nelson Goodman
Nelson Goodman is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, at Harvard University. Hilary Putnam was Cogan University Professor, Emeritus, at Harvard University.
Reviews for Fact, Fiction, and Forecast
Quite possibly the best book by a philosopher in the last twenty years. 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. This is the work of contemporary philosophy that I would most like to have written.
J. A. Fodor
J. A. Fodor