Discussion On Goodman's New Riddle Of Induction

Nelson Goodman, a famous scientific philosopher in America of the time advanced one of the"New riddles of induction"called"Gure paradox"in his book Fact, Fiction and Forecast. It drew far-ranging attention in the field, a large number of academics gave their own schemes about it. And these schemes deal with it mainly in view of predication or scientific methodology. Category by Kuhn and anti-fact if-clause extend the"Gure paradox", and the scheme of Chen Xiaoping depicts the form of simple enumeration in a new way and puts it into the Bayesian system Cpr to solve"Gure paradox"according to its validity in the system, while the cursory simple enumeration generally depicted is invalid in it. However, it seems that each scheme is not very perfect or satisfied, while those schemes trying to solve the paradox from their own perspectives enlighten us so much. Then we could try to deal with the paradox and the problems behind it from multiple viewpoints.The research on Goodman's"Gure paradox"is of great significance for the development of inductive logic and scientific philosophy. It broadens the range of inductive logic research, and urges wide application of Probability theory in inductive logic. The application of Probability logic and Bayesian theory in the area of artificial intelligence and so on makes people not only focus on questioning the rationality of induction but also more on its real applied value, and embodying in scientific philosophy area it is reviewing what is science, what is induction, what is scientific methodology and how to improve it to suffice the requirement of the development of human's cognition.