Raven paradox

The Raven paradox is a paradox proposed by the German logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a problem where inductive logic violates intuition.

References

• Hempel, C. G. A Purely Syntactical Definition of Confirmation. J. Symb. Logic 8, 122-143, 1943.
• Hempel, C. G. Studies in Logic and Confirmation. Mind 54, 1-26, 1945.
• Hempel, C. G. Studies in Logic and Confirmation. II. Mind 54, 97-121, 1945.
• Hempel, C. G. Studies in the Logic of Confirmation. In Marguerite H. Foster and Michael L. Martin, eds. Probability, Confirmation, and Simplicity. New York: Odyssey Press, 1966. Pp 145-183
• Falletta, Nicholas. The Paradoxicon: a Collection of Contradictory Challenges, Problematical Puzzles, and Impossible Illustrations. 1983. Pp 126-131. ISBN 0385179324