Lexicon of Arguments

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I 23
Defi Induction/Goodman: induction requires that some classes are seen as relevant classes by excluding others. >Relevance.
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II 82
The sharpest criticism VsHume/Goodman: Hume's analysis relates at best to the origin of predictions, not to their entitlement.
II 88
The problem of induction is not a problem of proof, but a problem of definition of the difference between justified and unjustified predictions.
>Justification, >Prediction.
II 89
There is mutual adjustment between definition and language use.
II 101f
Grue/Goodman: problem: the same data supports contrasting predictions. Question: in what essential property must hypotheses be the same > law: are not in connection with e.g. an object in my pocket. "Grue" does not work as a conventional non-law-like hypotheses (it is limited in space or time) - one can reverse the derivation: red and green from gred and reen.
II 109
Law-like or resumable hypotheses are not to be characterized purely syntactically.
II 95
What confirms certain data, is not what is obtained by generalization of separate individual cases, but that which is obtained by generalization of the entire body of data material.

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