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work_egmgcbyoijge5mhd76jacaqssi	C. A. Hooker	Goodman, 'Grue' and Hempel	1968	16	.pdf	application/pdf	8904	737	72	Then at time t we have, for each evidence statement asserting that a given emerald is Thus according to our present definition (Le. Hempel's definition of confirmation) the prediction that all emeralds subsequently examined will be green and the prediction that all will be grue are alike confirmed by evidence 124 of [4]) that "The class of all sentences confirmed by a consistent molecule (an evidence statement not containing quantifiers) is consistent." though formally a fraud (i.e. no contradictions are derivable), nevertheless generates an "over-arching" difficulty for Hempel's system of confirmation (and any Specific claims of confirmation are substantiated by deciding (intuitively) that the evidence and hypothesis sentences defined as in (P) then no evidence statement whatever in Hempel's system can contain that predicate in virtue of the fact that only molecules, which contain no If Goodman's predicate is to create any logical difficulties for Hempel then it must be possible to show that the same evidence confirms	./cache/work_egmgcbyoijge5mhd76jacaqssi.pdf	./txt/work_egmgcbyoijge5mhd76jacaqssi.txt