Pragmatism Reader by Talisse Robert B.; Aikin Scott F.;

Author:Talisse, Robert B.; Aikin, Scott F.;
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Princeton University Press

Notes

1. C. G. Hempel, Aspects of Scientific Explanation and Other Essays (New York: Free Press, 1965), p. 15.

2. Nelson Goodman, Fact, Fiction, and Forecast (Cambridge, Mass., 1955, or New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1965), p. 74. I am indebted to Goodman and to Burton Dreben for helpful criticisms of earlier drafts of the present paper.

3. Goodman, Fact, pp. 82 f.

4. Ibid., pp. 95 ff.

5. I mean this only as a sufficient condition of lawlikeness. See Donald Davidson, “Emeroses by other names,” Journal of Philosophy 63 (1966), 778–780.

6. This relevance of kind is noted by Goodman, Fact, first edition, pp. 119 f.; second edition, pp. 121 f.

7. Nelson Goodman, The Structure of Appearance, 2d ed. (New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966), pp. 163 f.

8. Rudolf Carnap, The Logical Structure of the World (California, 1967), pp. 141–147. (German edition 1928).

9. See my Word and Object, pp. 83 f., for further discussion and references.

10. See Word and Object, pp. 90–95.

11. This was noted by S. Watanabe on the second page of his paper “Une explication mathématique du classement d’objets,” in S. Dockx and P. Bernays, eds., Information and Prediction in Science (New York: Academy Press, 1965).

12. J. J. C. Smart, Philosophy and Scientific Realism (New York: Humanities, 1963), pp. 68–72.

13. Goodman, Fact, pp. 95 ff.

14. Carnap, “Testability and meaning,” Philosophy of Science 3 (1936), 419–471; 4 (1937), 1–40.

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