Henry Nelson Goodman lived from 7 August 1906 to 25 November 1998 and was an American philosopher known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism and aesthetics.
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Office HeldFounding director of Harvard Project Zero, 1967 to 1971 1 BirthplaceSomerville, Massachusetts 1 TraditionAnalytic philosophy; nominalism 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Nelson Goodman (Wikipedia)
WikipediaLife and career section, first sentence
Goodman was born in Somerville, Massachusetts
Nominalism and mereology section
Goodman, along with Stanislaw Lesniewski, is the founder of the contemporary variant of nominalism, which argues that philosophy, logic, and mathematics should dispense with set theory.
Life and career section
he was the founding director of Harvard Project Zero, a basic research project in artistic cognition and artistic education. He remained the director for four years
lead section, first sentence
Henry Nelson Goodman (7 August 1906-25 November 1998) was an American philosopher
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