RE: Hempel's Paradox

From: Phil Goetz (philgoetz@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon Sep 12 2005 - 09:51:22 MDT


> Suppose you have a population of 10 birds of different colors, and no
> other
> knowledge about the population.
>
> If you sample one of the birds and find that it's a purple goose, why
> does this count as information that all the RAVENS
> in the population are black?

Actually, it can - there are 10 birds that might have been
non-black ravens, and now there are only 9 birds that might
be non-black ravens.

- Phil

                
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