What to Believe and What To Take Seriously
A Reply to David Chart Concerning the Riddle of Induction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11512188 |
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| Authors | Oliver Schulte (0000-0002-2805-4313, University of Alberta, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 151-153 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0882 • E-ISSN: 1464-3537 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjps/51.1.151 |
| OpenAlex | W2051639661 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
ts the fact that depending on the space of alternative hypotheses, means-ends analysis may select a different hypothesis on the same evidence: "all emeralds are green" in my Goodmanian Riddle, and "all emeralds are grue" in his. To my mind, his example proves that means-ends epistemology is not biased towards green-blue rather than grue-bleen. (A formal demonstration that means-ends analysis is language-invariant for all inductive problems appears in my paper "The Logic of Reliable and Efficient Inquiry" [Schulte 99].) Chart, however, concludes that "means-ends epistemology does not resolve Goodman's problem". That depends on what one takes Goodman's problem to be. If the problem is to find the right inference for a given set of alternative hypotheses and a given piece of evidence, means-ends analysis applies. Chart suggests that instead, we should "ask ... about the problem-space within which it [a hypothesis] is cast". It seems that the problem he is raising is what should count a pr
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