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Nelson Goodman was an American philosopher.
He was born 7 August 1906 in Somerville, Maryland. and graduated from Harvard in 1928. He then ran an art gallery on Boston, Massachusetts for 11 years, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1941. He joined the US Army until the end of World War II and then spent 18 years teaching at the University of Pennsylvania. He was a research fellow at the Harvard Center for Cognitive Studies from 1962 to 1963 and was a Professor at several universities from 1964 to 1967 until being appointed Professor of Philosophy at Harvard in 1968. His wife, the former Katharine Sturgis, died in 1996. He died 25 November 1998.
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bleen paradox - what if sky just looks blue, but one day in the future may turn green? thus the sky is not blue, it is bleen. phenomenologist reasoning to find truth, in contrast to positivist (inductive logic) proof of truth.
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