Queries on Hempel's solution to the paradoxes of confirmation
DUN Xinguo
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Department of Philosophy, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China;
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05 Mar 2007
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05 Mar 2007
Abstract
To solve the highly counterintuitive paradox of confirmation represented by the statement, A pair of red shoes confirms that all ravens are black, Hempel employed a strategy that retained the equivalence condition but abandoned Nicod s irrelevance condition. However, his use of the equivalence condition is fairly ad hoc, raising doubts about its applicability to this problem. Furthermore, applying the irrelevance condition from Nicod s criterion does not necessarily lead to paradoxes, nor does discarding it prevent the emergence of paradoxes. Hempel s approach fails to adequately resolve the paradox.
DUN Xinguo.
Queries on Hempel's solution to the paradoxes of confirmation. Front. Philos. China, 2007, 2(1): 131‒139 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11466-007-0008-0
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