The new riddle of induction was presented by Nelson Goodman in his book Fact, Fiction, and Forecast as a successor to Hume's original problem of induction. Goodman introduced the artificial predicates grue and bleen, which are unusual because their application depends on time, to show that not every predicate consistent with past observations is equally suited to projecting future ones; Hilary Putnam and others have argued that whether a predicate counts as suspiciously time-dependent depends on the language used to state it, and that in some possible languages the same charge could be leveled against ordinary predicates such as green. For Goodman the riddle illustrates the deeper problem of identifying which predicates are genuinely projectible, and so which empirical generalizations are law-like and which are not.
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The new riddle of induction was presented by Nelson Goodman in Fact, Fiction, and Forecast as a successor to Humes original problem.
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