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Single Idea 17661
[filed under theme 7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 5. Supervenience / d. Humean supervenience
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Full Idea
Recognising patterns is very much a matter of inventing or imposing them.
Gist of Idea
We don't recognise patterns - we invent them
Source
Nelson Goodman (Ways of Worldmaking [1978], 1.7)
Book Ref
Goodman,Nelson: 'Ways of Worldmaking' [Hackett 1984], p.22
A Reaction
I take this to be false.
The
30 ideas
from Nelson Goodman
18749
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Goodman argued that the confirmation relation can never be formalised
[Goodman, by Horsten/Pettigrew]
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17646
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Goodman showed that every sound inductive argument has an unsound one of the same form
[Goodman, by Putnam]
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14292
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Dispositions seem more ethereal than behaviour; a non-occult account of them would be nice
[Goodman]
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4794
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We don't use laws to make predictions, we call things laws if we make predictions with them
[Goodman]
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12394
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If the result is bad, we change the rule; if we like the rule, we reject the result
[Goodman]
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8113
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Art is like understanding a natural language, and needs a grasp of a symbol system
[Goodman, by Gardner]
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20439
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Artistic symbols are judged by the fruitfulness of their classifications
[Goodman, by Giovannelli]
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20438
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A performance is only an instance of a work if there is not a single error
[Goodman]
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20437
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A copy only becomes an 'instance' of an artwork if there is a system of notation
[Goodman]
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20440
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Art is a referential activity, hence indefinable, but it has a set of symptoms
[Goodman]
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12191
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Counterfactuals are true if logical or natural laws imply the consequence
[Goodman, by McFetridge]
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7956
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If all and only red things were round things, we would need to specify the 'respect' of the resemblance
[Goodman, by Macdonald,C]
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7957
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Without respects of resemblance, we would collect blue book, blue pen, red pen, red clock together
[Goodman, by Macdonald,C]
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9920
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Two objects can apparently make up quite distinct arrangements in sets
[Goodman, by Burgess/Rosen]
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7952
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If we apply the same word to different things, it is only because we are willing to do so
[Goodman, by Macdonald,C]
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15510
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Classes are a host of ethereal, platonic, pseudo entities
[Goodman]
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10657
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The counties of Utah, and the state, and its acres, are in no way different
[Goodman]
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17650
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We lack frames of reference to transform physics, biology and psychology into one another
[Goodman]
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17649
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If the world is one it has many aspects, and if there are many worlds they will collect into one
[Goodman]
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17651
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Without words or other symbols, we have no world
[Goodman]
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17654
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A world can be full of variety or not, depending on how we sort it
[Goodman]
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17653
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Things can only be judged the 'same' by citing some respect of sameness
[Goodman]
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17655
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Grue and green won't be in the same world, as that would block induction entirely
[Goodman]
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17656
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Being primitive or prior always depends on a constructional system
[Goodman]
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17657
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We build our world, and ignore anything that won't fit
[Goodman]
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17658
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Users of digital thermometers recognise no temperatures in the gaps
[Goodman]
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17652
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Truth is irrelevant if no statements are involved
[Goodman]
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17659
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Reality is largely a matter of habit
[Goodman]
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17661
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We don't recognise patterns - we invent them
[Goodman]
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17660
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Discovery is often just finding a fit, like a jigsaw puzzle
[Goodman]
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