"Hempel's paradox" meaning in English

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Proper name

Etymology: Proposed by the logician Carl Gustav Hempel in the 1940s to illustrate a contradiction between inductive logic and intuition. Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Hempel's paradox
  1. 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. Wikipedia link: Carl Gustav Hempel, raven paradox Synonyms: raven paradox Related terms: nonraven, ravenness

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