Fact, Fiction, and Forecast

By N. Goodman. 1955

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Shaping Visual Representations with Language for Few-Shot Classification (2019, neutral): “seagulls), even without language we know that features like belly and feather color are relevant (Goodman, 1955).”
Rethinking eliminative connectionism. (1998, background): “Any problem-solver that cannot entertain an infinite number of possibilities simultaneously must order some hypotheses before others (for a related point, see Goodman, 1955).”
How Bayesian Confirmation Theory Handles the Paradox of the Ravens (2010, background): “More recently, Maher (2004) has convincingly argued [contrary to what he had previously argued in his (1999)] that, within a proper neo-Carnapian Bayesian framework, Hempel’s (NCT) is false, and so is its Quinean “restriction” (QNCT).”
A Rational Analysis of Rule-Based Concept Learning (2008, background): “Goodman, 1955).) The psychological reality and importance of basis features has been shown a number of ways. For instance, the “Filtration” concept of Kruschke (1993) may be simply describe as a decision bound along one dimensions, while the “Condensation” concept cannot—though it is identical to th”
Theory Of Decision Under Uncertainty (2009, background): “Worse still, the heightened sensitivity to language typical of twentieth century analytical philosophy produced Goodman’s “grue-bleen” paradox (Goodman, 1954), which showed that the legitimacy of inductive reasoning is even shakier than we used to think.”