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Hempel's paradox
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English
raven paradox
Etymology
Proposed by the logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic and intuition.
Proper noun
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.
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en 2020 Ferenc Csatári Measurement and Meaning Lexington Books 9781498583008 83 https://books.google.com/books?id=Adm_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA83&dq=%22Stigler%27s+law%22&hl=en&cd=10&source=gbs_api#v=onepage&q=%22Stigler's%20law%22&f=false Thus Hempel's paradox, later indeed popularized by Hempel, is a nice example of Stigler's law: nothing is named after its inventor.
See also
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