Nelson Goodman, <i>Fact, Fiction, and Forecast</i>

Relativism: Protagoras and Nelson Goodman

پروتاگوراس در یونان باستان و نلسون گودمن در دورۀ جدید دو تن از برجسته­ترین مدافعان نسبی­گرایی به شمار می­روند. گاه ممکن است نثر آن دو فریبنده بنماید، و چه بسا این امر شرح و تفسیر منظور و مراد حقیقی آنها را دشوار سازد. پروتاگوراس و گودمن، با وجود برخی تفاوتها، به دفاع از این دیدگاه به ظاهر افراطی می­پردازند که همه وقایع، به معنای حقیقی کلمه، وابسته به دیدگاه انسان است. هدف این مقاله شرح و بررسی ...

relativism: protagoras and nelson goodman

discussion of the many faces of relativism occupies a highly prominent place in the epistemological literature. protagoras in ancient greece and nelson goodman in the modern period are two most notable proponent of relativism. in the present article, i discuss and explain relativistic approaches of this two important relativist. i will first briefly define and review some faces of relativism. t...

FaCT and iFaCT

FaCT (Fast Classification of Terminologies) is a Description Logic (DL) classifier which has been implemented as a test-bed for a sound and complete tableaux satisfiability/subsumption testing algorithm. FaCT’s novelty lies in its relatively expressive logic and its highly optimised implementation of the tableaux algorithm. iFaCT is an extension of FaCT that supports reasoning with inverse role...

Religion, Race, and Gender in the ‘Race-less’ Fiction of Alice Dunbar-Nelson

Goodman, 'grue' and Hempel*

It is now commonly accepted that N. Goodman's predicate "grue" presents the theory of confirmation of C. G. Hempel (and other such theories) with grave difficulties. The precise nature and status of these "difficulties" has, however, never been made clear. In this paper it is argued that it is very unlikely that "grue" raises any formal difficulties for Hempel and appearances to the contrary ar...