According to this book, a decision between two hypotheses H and H' [h-prime] can be made on the basis of each of their "entrenchment."
Hilary Putnam wrote a foreword to the fourth edition of this book in which he argued Jerry Fodor incorrectly interpreted this book as proposing an "innate ordering of hypotheses." According to this book, a decision between two hypotheses H and H' [h-prime] can be made on the basis of each of their "entrenchment." This book uses the sentence "If I were Julius Caesar, I wouldn't be alive in the twentieth century" to illustrate the concept of "counter-identicals," an example of the counterfactuals discussed in its first section. It argues that (*) "projection," as also discussed in the author's Structure of Appearance, accounts for the predominance of some predicates over others by proposing a pair of related predicates that change with time. For 10 points, the "new riddle of induction" and "grue/bleen" examples are presented in what book by Nelson Goodman?
Hilary Putnam wrote a foreword to the fourth edition of this book in which he argued Jerry Fodor incorrectly interpreted this book as proposing an "innate ordering of hypotheses."
Fact, Fiction, and Forecast