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Fact, Fiction and Forecast: Fourth Edition

Fact, Fiction and Forecast: Fourth Edition

by Goodman (Author)

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Edition: 4th Revised ed.
 Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 01 Jul 1990
ISBN 10: 0674290712
ISBN 13: 9780674290716
Book Overview: Quire possibly the best book by a philosopher in the last twenty years. It changed, probably permanently, the way we think about the problem of induction, and hence about a constellation of related problems like learning and the nature of rational decision. This is the work of contemporary philosophy that I would most like to hove written. -- J. A. Fodor

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Quite possibly the best book by a philosopher in the last twenty years. It changed, probably permanently, the way we think about the problem of induction, and hence about a constellation of related problems like learning and the nature of rational decision. This is the work of contemporary philosophy that I would most like to have written.--J. A. Fodor
Author Bio
Nelson Goodman is Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Harvard University. Hilary Putnam is Cogan University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University.