Question
Nelson Goodman’s book Fact, Fiction, and Forecast uses two time-dependent examples of these attributes to argue that a certain process works better for predicates with an entrenched usage. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name these things. One thinker used the example of a man who is asked to imagine one of these things to show that some ideas cannot be drawn from impressions in a counterexample to his own “copy principle.”
ANSWER: colors [or shades; accept missing shade of blue; accept blue; accept green; accept grue; accept bleen]
[10e] Goodman posited grue and bleen in his “new riddle of [this process],” which builds on Hume’s problem concerning it. This process, which uses past cases to generalize future cases, is contrasted with deduction.
ANSWER: induction [accept New Riddle of Induction]
[10m] Goodman described how induction can be justified by creating a reflective equilibrium, a term originally coined by this author of A Theory of Justice to describe how societies compromise on moral principles.
ANSWER: John Rawls
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Fall at Cornell | fall | Y | 9 | 12.22 | 100% | 11% | 11% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Ohio State | fall | Y | 8 | 17.50 | 88% | 50% | 38% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Washington | fall | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 83% | 50% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Georgia | fall | Y | 11 | 15.45 | 82% | 46% | 27% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at North Carolina | fall | Y | 9 | 20.00 | 100% | 67% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Claremont Colleges | fall | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 20% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Fall at Rutgers | fall | Y | 8 | 15.00 | 88% | 50% | 13% |
Data
| Vanderbilt A | Alabama A | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Missisippi State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Missisippi State | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Auburn C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech B | Auburn C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Emory A | Emory Oxford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Furman | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech C | Belmont | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech D | Tennessee A | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Georgia Tech B | Missisippi State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech B | Missisippi State | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Georgia Tech B | Auburn C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech B | Auburn C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Mississippi State A | Georgia Tech E | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| South Carolina B | Southern | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Clemson B | Tennessee B | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| Auburn B | Vanderbilt B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |