Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hempel's paradox

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hempel's -para-dox
IPA

31

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

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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.

Example Sentences

"Thus Hempel's paradox, later indeed popularized by Hempel, is a nice example of Stigler's law: nothing is named after its inventor."

Etymology

Proposed by the logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic and intuition.

Frequently Paired Words

nonraven ravenness

Synonyms

raven paradox

Questions

What does hempel's paradox mean?: 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.
Where does hempel's paradox come from?: Proposed by the logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic and intuition.

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