Single Idea 14989

[catalogued under 14. Science / C. Induction / 5. Paradoxes of Induction / a. Grue problem]

Full Idea

'Is nonblack', 'is a nonraven', and 'grue' fail to carve at the joints.

Gist of Idea

Problem predicates in induction don't reflect the structure of nature

Source

Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 03.3)

Book Reference

Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.35


A Reaction

A lot more than this needs to said, but this remark encapsulates why I find most of these paradoxes of induction uninteresting. They are all the creations of logicians, rather than of scientists.