Hempel's paradox

English

Etymology

Proposed by the logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic and intuition.

Proper noun

Hempel's paradox

  1. A paradox arising from the question of what constitutes evidence for a statement. Observing objects that are neither black nor ravens may formally increase the likelihood that all ravens are black, even though, intuitively, these observations are unrelated.
    Synonym: raven paradox
    • 2020, Ferenc Csatári, Measurement and Meaning, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 83:
      Thus Hempel's paradox, later indeed popularized by Hempel, is a nice example of Stigler's law: nothing is named after its inventor.

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