When1: 1951
When2: 1983
Who: Nelson Goodman [Goodman, Nelson]
What: philosopher
Where: USA
works\ Structure of Appearance [1951 and 1977]; Languages of Art [1968]; Problems and Projects [1972]; Fact, Fiction and Forecast [1954 and 1983: first and fourth editions]
Detail: He lived 1906 to ? and studied part and whole relations {mereology, Goodman}.
Aesthetics
General theories of symbols can explain art. Art can be allographic or autographic, based on meaning.
Epistemology
Phenomena have basic sensory units, from which experiences are made. Classes with same elements are the same, no matter their names. Regularities in nature are not necessarily useful for prediction, because predictions can depend on changes that people know will happen at future times {new riddle of induction}. Regularities up until now confirm the predictions that there will be no change and that something will change at time in the future {grue}. Only unchanging predictions can use regularities. Conditional can have false antecedent (counterfactual). False antecedent is typically false because it is hypothetical.
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