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Why There Need Not Be Any Grue Problem About Inductive Inference As Such

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2001

Stephen Hetherington
Affiliation:
The University of New South Wales

Abstract

I argue that Goodman's puzzle of grue at least poses no real challenge about inductive inference. By drawing on Stove's characterisation of Hume's characterisation of inductive inference, we see that the premises in an inductive inference report experienced impressions; and Goodman can be interpreted as posing a real challenge about inductive inference only if we treat an epistemic subject's observations more as logical contents and less as experienced impressions. So, even though the grue puzzle was effective against its stated logicist targets, it is not thereby an enduring difficulty regarding experience's ability to impart epistemic justification via inductive evidence.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2001

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