[Revised entry by Daniel Cohnitz and Marcus Rossberg on February 8, 2024.
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Nelson Goodman (1906 – 1998) was one of the most influential twentieth-century American philosophers. Goodman’s philosophical interests ranged from formal logic and the philosophy of science to the philosophy of art. In all these diverse fields Goodman made significant and highly original contributions. Perhaps his most famous contribution is the “grue-paradox”, which points to the problem that in order to learn by induction, we need to make a distinction between projectible and non-projectible predicates. Other…

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