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Confirmation and the Nomological
Canadian Journal of Philosophy 10 (3):415 - 428 (1980)
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We argue that it is a mistake to approach goodman's new riddle of induction by demarcating projectible from non-Projectible predicates and hypotheses, And put forward an alternative way of looking at the whole questionAuthor's Profile
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