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Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel

BIRTH DATE:  1/8/1905
DEATH DATE:  11/9/1997
CRAFT:  Philosophy
NATIONALITY:  German
PROFESSION:  writer, philosopher of science, and a major figure in 20th-century logical empiricism
TRAVELS:  Author of the Raven Paradox, aka Hempel's Paradox (1945), which explores the question of what constitutes evidence for a statement and suggests that all ravens are black.
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