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.
出版日期: 2007-03-05
引用本文:
. Queries on Hempel's solution to the paradoxes of confirmation[J]. Frontiers of Philosophy in China, 2007, 2(1): 131-139.
DUN Xinguo. Queries on Hempel's solution to the paradoxes of confirmation. Front. Philos. China, 2007, 2(1): 131-139.
