“The Grue Paradox” is reprinted by permission from Yuri Balashov and Alexander Rosenberg, eds., Philosophy of Science: Contemporary Readings (2002), 307-320.

This chapter, written especially for the Balashov and Rosenberg collection, is based on material in The Book of Evidence. I offer a new solution to Goodman's important paradox, which must be answered by any account of evidence and inductive reasoning. The present solution is very differentfrom one thatStephen Barkerand I proposed in our1960 article, “On the New Riddle ofInduction, ” Philosophicat Review 69,511-522 (to which Goodman replied in the same issue).

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