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Nelson Goodman

BIRTH DATE:  8/7/1906
DEATH DATE:  11/25/88
CRAFT:  Philosophy
NATIONALITY:  American
PROFESSION:  philosopher
TRAVELS:  Known for his work on counterfactuals, mereology, the problem of induction, irrealism, and aesthetics. Goodman's Paradox (1955) concludes: we have no rational justification for picking one hypothesis as better confirmed than an infinite host of alternatives
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