@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Logic Texts}, subject = {Verification (Confirmation)}, note = {Sainsbury V 115f Verification/Principle/Sainsbury: V1 (Hempel) a generalization is confirmed by each of its instances - (does not apply to grue). >Grue. Another principle: A1: If one knows of two hypotheses a priori that they are equivalent, then all data confirm which confirm the one hypothesis, also confirm the other. This leads to paradoxes. >Paradox. V 135 G4 A hypothesis: All Fs are Gs is confirmed by a corpus of data that contains its instances and no counter-instances exactly when the data does not say there is or even there is highly likely to be a property H, of which is valid that the examined Fs are only G because they are H: from G4 follows that the hypothesis that all emeralds are grue is confirmed by the data consisting only of statements of the form "This is a green emerald", but it does not follow from this that the hypothesis of the corpus of data, including the background information, which we actually own, is validated. V 138 N.B.: that explains why the data does not confirm that all the emeralds are grue. >Grueness.}, note = { Sai I R.M. Sainsbury Paradoxes, Cambridge/New York/Melbourne 1995 German Edition: Paradoxien Stuttgart 1993 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=207729} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=207729} }